Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

Overview

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. SEC, CFTC, and the Federal Reserve. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides CCP clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.

More information about OCC is available at

This role will work collaboratively with experts building OCC’s next generation clearing and settlement system, and paving the future of digital transformation in the capital markets industry.

• Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems
• Develop solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop
• Optimize application performance through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
• Recommend technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes
• Customer focus: stakeholders and users of the U.S. equity options and futures markets
• Impact to customers: modernize the company s risk management, clearing, and data systems
• Business Challenge: modernize OCC s technology to better serve market participants

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The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] 7+ years of experience in building high speed, data-centric solutions
• [Required] Java 7+ years experience
• [Required] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc
• [Required]
  
  Experience with distributed message brokers such as Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Active
  
  MQ, Amazon Kinesis
• [Required] Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM
• [Required] Experience developing technical solutions on public cloud providers like Amazon, Google
• [Required] Experience writing unit and integration tests with frameworks like JUnit, Citrus
• [Required] Experience working with relational and No
  
  SQL databases, and other data stores
• [Required] Experience following Git workflows
• [Required] Working knowledge of Dev Ops tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD)
• [Required] Familiarity with monitoring tools and frameworks like Splunk, Elastic Search, Prometheus, App Dynamics

• [Required] Java-based software development experience
• [Required] Strong object-oriented design, software patterns, and architecture principles
• [Required] Strong testing experience including test plans and automated test cases
• [Required] Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development
• [Required] Experience with two or more of: web/mobile development, Unix/Linux, event-driven systems, transaction processing, distributed systems, security software, public-cloud platforms
• [Required] Hands-on experience with Java 8+, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs

• [Preferred] OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification
• [Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

• [Required] BS degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field
• [Preferred] MS in Computer Science

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. OCC delivers clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions and operates under SEC, CFTC, and Federal Reserve oversight. More information at

• Hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology stipend for remote work
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits

• Salary range: $ - $
• Incentive range: 8% to 15%
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility; target ranges depend on performance

OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology