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OCC
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
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Founded in 1973, OCC is a financial market infrastructure organization focused on equity derivatives clearing. It supports stability and market integrity through clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility, OCC operates under the oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Its central counterparty clearing services support more than 100 clearing members and 20 exchanges and trading platforms, making OCC a significant employer for professionals working across finance, fintech, banking, technology, risk, and market operations.
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Associate Principal Software Engineer, Java – Chicago Hybrid

Lead Java automation testing framework development at OCC, supporting critical risk technology systems. Drive architecture, CI/CD, secure delivery, technical standards, and engineering mentorship in a hybrid Chicago role.

USUnited StatesILIllinoisTXTexas
$110,500 – $188,100 / year
HybridFull-timeMiddleEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware Engineer
AWSDistributed SystemsDockerJavaJenkinsKafkaMicroservicesPostgresSpringSpring BootSQL

Description

  • Serve as a senior individual contributor on OCC’s automation testing framework team
  • Design, develop, and enhance automation frameworks for critical risk technology systems
  • Own complex technical deliverables from planning through completion while establishing engineering standards
  • Produce clean, maintainable, thoroughly tested Java code and lead debugging and root-cause investigations
  • Direct framework feature development and promote adoption through documentation, guidance, and enablement
  • Conduct code reviews and advance continuous improvement across the codebase and delivery processes
  • Evaluate and address findings from SonarQube, Snyk, Sysdig, Veracode, and Black Duck
  • Strengthen CI/CD automation with Jenkins and containerized deployments using Docker, Harness, and Rancher
  • Resolve complex framework issues and address underlying causes of recurring problems
  • Facilitate design reviews, proof-of-concept initiatives, and architectural decisions
  • Mentor and coach Associates and fellow engineers
  • Partner with business, technical, and non-technical stakeholders in an agile environment
  • Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions
  • Provide technical leadership and direction without formal people-management responsibilities

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional software engineering experience with production systems, including distributed systems and backend microservices
  • Experience with distributed computing technologies such as Kafka Streams and message queues
  • Strong background in API development, SQL databases, and storage services such as Amazon S3
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps tooling, Git, and test automation frameworks
  • Thorough understanding of object-oriented programming, microservices, REST APIs, and Java 8 or later
  • Experience leading technical work within Agile delivery practices
  • Advanced Java skills covering object-oriented design, concurrency, multithreading, performance tuning, and Spring Boot
  • Strong Kafka knowledge, including producers, consumers, topics, partitioning, and delivery semantics
  • Experience with Protobuf or Avro and schema governance practices
  • Hands-on AWS experience, particularly with S3
  • Ability to write and optimize analytical SQL queries for relational databases such as PostgreSQL
  • Proficiency with Git workflows and Jenkins or comparable CI/CD platforms
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
  • Ability to mentor colleagues and collaborate effectively in an agile setting

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with up to two remote days each week
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Technology stipend supporting your choice of work device when remote
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave
  • Employer 401(k) match
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Eligibility for a discretionary bonus
  • Annual discretionary incentive award with an 8% to 15% target range

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