Principal Software Engineer - Cloud, DevOps & Java

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC); Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work up to 2 days remote

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment assistance

Technology stipend

Generous PTO & parental leave

401k employer match

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) in Chicago seeks a senior software engineer to lead and deliver data-rich features for high-traffic trading systems. You will integrate with upstream data sources, optimize performance, and enhance user interfaces while maintaining rock-solid reliability.

You will guide a multidisciplinary team in an agile setting, contribute to DevOps, backend, and UI efforts, and drive architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable software across

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Help build a stronger team to support in-house development as the vendor engagement ends.
• Technically help team in DevOps, backend and UI development.
• Collaborate with leads to solve complex project solutions across systems.
• Ensure project health and plan for future hurdles while maintaining delivery timelines.
• Hands-on coding, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Prepare the application for production with nonfunctional planning.
• Recommend technologies to improve efficiency and quality of OCC systems.

Skills

Java development

Web app development

Distributed systems

Cloud & DevOps

CI/CD

Security practices

Team leadership

Relational & non-relational DB

Logging & monitoring

IAM & secure coding

Problem solving

Curiosity & learning

Education

BS in Computer Science

Masters preferred

Tools

Jenkins

Jira

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Rancher

Harness

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) in Chicago seeks a senior software engineer to lead and deliver data-rich features for high-traffic trading systems. You will integrate with upstream data sources, optimize performance, and enhance user interfaces while maintaining rock-solid reliability.

You will guide a multidisciplinary team in an agile setting, contribute to DevOps, backend, and UI efforts, and drive architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable software across