Hiring: Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java Company: The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Location: Greater Chicago Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 14:48:40 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, ActiveMQ, Agile, Ansible, AppDynamics, CI/CD, Derivatives, EC2, Elasticsearch, Event-Driven, Flink, Git, Helm, IAM, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Kinesis, Kubernetes, MapReduce, Prometheus, RDS, RabbitMQ, Risk Management, S3, Spark, Splunk, Terraform, Workday About the job Experience: •8+ year of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions. Required Skills: •To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. •Actively participates and leads requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements. Must always look for assumptions made in the models and must always validate those assumptions of the models. •Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions. •Primarily responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment •Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation. •Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: 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 thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards •Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks. Compensation: •$136,000 - $222,800 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!