Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java
What You'll Do
As a senior software engineer you will work with business analysts, team leads and other developers, contributing in architecture, design and development of scalable & resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities. You will be mentoring and collaborating with developers, architects, and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization. The Senior Application Developer will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
Interpreting business/technical requirements to create high-quality code that functions according to specifications.
Individual contributor responsible for design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
Should have hands-on experience in developing software with agile or scrum methodologies and are ready to lead our junior developer's team
Should have an innovative thought process and creative thinking which can bring out of box and alternate way of system implementation
Research and evaluate alternative solutions and recommend the most efficient application programming solution.
Assisting other developers with code reviews, troubleshooting, debugging, and coding
Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meeting both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
A major influencer & strategic thinker, this person should also mentor developers and collaborate across multiple cross functional teams to achieve the desired outcome.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- None
Qualifications:
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.
Minimum of 8-12 years of experience in application programming development on JAVA 8 or higher version.
5+ years of solid, diverse work experience in the financial industry and fundamental understanding of Risk and Risk based systems
Excellent written and verbal communication
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Technical Skills:
Hands on experience with functional programming, frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot, multi-threading, caching, large & disparate data sets persisting & retrieval mechanisms, highly distributed systems, RESTful services, performance tuning, streaming frameworks
Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks involving MapReduce techniques like Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc. is desirable.
Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
Strong development, coding, testing (JUnit, TestNG) and debugging skills
Experience with Amazon Web Service or any other cloud-based storage systems, Gradle, KAFKA, CI/CD tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc., Redis
Exceptional problem-solving and analytical abilities
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Minimum of 8-12 years of experience in application programming development on JAVA 8 or higher version.
5+ years of solid, diverse work experience in the financial industry and fundamental understanding of Risk and Risk based systems
Certificates or Licenses:
- N/A
Who We Are
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. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.
What We Offer
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
Student Loan Repayment Assistance
Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
Generous PTO and Parental leave
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision