Hybrid Associate Principal, Software Engineering

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC); Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend

PTO and Parental leave

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking an Associate Principal to drive architecture and development of scalable hybrid cloud solutions for critical financial risk management. You will mentor teams and collaborate with product owners to transform our enterprise into a data-driven organization.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in large-scale systems, strong Java, cloud, testing, and CI/CD experience, plus a track record delivering high-quality, secure software in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Java 8+ experience is required.
• OO design, advanced patterns (AOP) and multi-threading required.
• Experience with distributed brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis desirable.
• Cloud tech and migrations; AWS services including VPCs, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM etc.
• High-speed distributed computing with Spark, Kafka Streams, Flink a plus.
• Write high-quality code with >90% unit/integration test coverage; CI/CD practices.
• Experience with relational, NoSQL, graph databases; Git workflows.
• Familiar with DevOps tools: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm; monitoring with Splunk/Prometheus.
• Get stuff done mindset; intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates in design of high-performing, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized solutions.
• Lead architecture design and development of next-gen clearing applications in an Agile environment.
• Analyze requirements, develop, test, and ensure quality implementation.
• Follow SDLC to meet quality, performance, and security standards.
• Perform code reviews and write unit/integration tests.
• Mentor developers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Assist Production Support with system functionality and fixes.
• Communicate delays or defects promptly to teams and management.

Skills

Java 8+

OO design

Multi-threading

AOP

Distributed messaging

Cloud/AWS

Spark/Kafka Streams

Testing frameworks

Git workflows

DevOps tools

Monitoring tools

Curiosity & learning

Education

BS in Computer Science

Masters preferred

OCP Java SE 8

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Kinesis

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Helm

Splunk

ElasticSearch

Prometheus

AppDynamics

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking an Associate Principal to drive architecture and development of scalable hybrid cloud solutions for critical financial risk management. You will mentor teams and collaborate with product owners to transform our enterprise into a data-driven organization.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in large-scale systems, strong Java, cloud, testing, and CI/CD experience, plus a track record delivering high-quality, secure software in a dynamic environment.