Senior Associate, Software Engineering
Job ID: Referral Program eligible
About Us
The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, 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. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with business analysts, team leads, and the development team.
- Act as a contributor in developing scalable and resilient hybrid and cloud-based data solutions supporting critical financial market clearing and risk activities.
- Collaborate with other developers, architects, and product owners to support enterprise transformation into a data-driven organization.
- Design and implement efficient database access strategies for high-throughput applications by selectively bypassing ORM frameworks and executing optimized SQL queries.
- Support the application development of big data applications for business requirements in an agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
- Develop scalable microservices and RESTful APIs for data-intensive applications using Java and Spring Boot with MongoDB or Postgres.
- Thoroughly analyze requirements, develop, test, and document software quality to ensure proper implementation.
- Design and optimize low-latency, event-driven distributed systems to handle high-throughput workloads using Spring Batch and Kafka.
- Design and deploy distributed real-time applications on AWS cloud to achieve high throughput and cost efficiency using EC2 and Auto Scaling Groups.
- Follow agreed-upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, and security rules.
- Perform application and project risk analysis and recommend quality improvements.
- Assist Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes.
- Communicate in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
- Utilize experience with resolving security vulnerabilities.
Up to 40% telecommuting permitted.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Three (3) years of experience as a software developer, systems engineer, research assistant, or related role.
Skills
Must have work or volunteer experience with each of the following:
- Design and optimize low-latency, event-driven distributed systems to handle high-throughput workloads using Spring Batch and Kafka.
- Develop scalable microservices and RESTful APIs for data-intensive applications using Java and Spring Boot with MongoDB or Postgres.
- Design and implement efficient database access strategies for high-throughput applications by selectively bypassing ORM frameworks and executing optimized SQL queries.
- Design and deploy distributed real-time applications on AWS cloud to achieve high throughput and cost efficiency using EC2 and Auto Scaling Groups.
Benefits
- A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work.
- Tuition Reimbursement to support continued education.
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
- Technology Stipend allowing the use of a preferred device to connect to the network while working remotely.
- Generous PTO and Parental leave.
- 401k Employer Match.
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
Pay
Salary range: $120,300–$151,900. Discretionary bonuses may be available based on company and individual performance.