Chicago Board Options Exchange

Software Engineer, Testing

Chicago Board Options Exchange$93K — $121K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 2+ years of QA or Software Engineering experience with hands-on automated testing
  • Strong Python development skills
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and software engineering principles
  • SQL proficiency with PostgreSQL and/or Snowflake
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
  • Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Working knowledge of Linux
  • Experience testing event-driven architectures, preferably with Apache Kafka

Responsibilities

  • Write automated tests and code for new functionality in real-time trading systems
  • Create integration tests to connect real-time systems and batch processes
  • Design automated testing for distributed data pipelines
  • Validate event-driven architectures by testing message integrity and flow
  • Test various functionalities such as trading and billing within the trading systems
  • Audit billing discrepancies in Snowflake and PostgreSQL and build automated tests for them
  • Develop chaos engineering tests and disaster recovery scenarios for critical systems

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off including vacation and sick days
  • Health, dental and vision benefits with telemedicine and mental health services
  • 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% immediately upon hire
  • Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Tax Savings Accounts for health and transportation
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Complimentary lunch, snacks, and coffee at Cboe offices
  • Paid tuition assistance and education opportunities
  • Generous charitable giving company match
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
  • On-site gyms with discounts to other fitness centers
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Location Overview

Cboe Global Markets operates a key office in the Overland Park Xchange (OPx), located in Overland Park, Kansas, a bustling suburb of Kansas City. The OPx business park is strategically positioned to provide convenient access to the Kansas City metropolitan area, offering modern infrastructure and a collaborative environment ideal for the financial services and technology industries. This location benefits from proximity to major highways, making it easily accessible for employees

The OPx site provides a balance of high-quality office space, advanced facilities, and an environment conducive to productivity and growth.

Role Overview

Our team combines the best practices of DevOps and QA to enable frequent and fast delivery of high-quality software. We care deeply about system reliability, testability, recoverability, and fault tolerance.

Our QA engineers have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, programming, and software engineering. We are analytical thinkers. We are always developing and improving our craft. If it's broken, we fix it. If it needs refactoring, we refactor it. If it's hard to test, we make it testable. We love automation. We ship code weekly. We're looking for like-minded individuals to join us.

Your responsibilities will be:

Testing & Validation

  • Write automated tests and code to evaluate new functionality across our real-time trading systems
  • Create system-wide integration tests bridging our real-time systems and batch frameworks and processes
  • Design and execute automated testing for distributed data pipelines, including real-time and batch processing systems
  • Validate event-driven architectures by testing message flows, ordering, latency, and data integrity within Kafka streams
  • Test trading, billing, symbol, data platform, and reference data flowing through the trading system to ensure functionality and stability
  • Work in Snowflake and PostgreSQL to audit and identify billing discrepancies, building automated test coverage for various billing scenarios
  • Develop chaos engineering tests and disaster recovery scenarios for critical systems

Frameworks & Tooling
  • Develop and maintain our proprietary Python-based automated test frameworks
  • Contribute to the design and evolution of our world-class, home-grown testing framework
  • Develop Java-based automation tools (on select sub-projects) to process, search, and validate terabyte-scale market data files
  • Improve deployment processes, stored procedures/API calls, scheduler configurations, and quality control procedures

Collaboration & Documentation
  • Collaborate directly with product owners and development teams to test and validate new features - identifying, reporting, and driving resolution on issues
  • Partner with engineering and data teams to define scalable QA strategies for performance, resiliency, and correctness in high-volume trading environments
  • Learn trading concepts and apply that knowledge to develop a wide variety of real-world test scenarios
  • Maintain system-wide documentation, runbooks, process flows, and troubleshooting guides


The ideal candidate has
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 2+ years of QA or Software Engineering experience with demonstrable, hands-on automated testing
  • Strong Python development skills (our primary language)
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, OOP design, and software engineering principles
  • SQL proficiency (PostgreSQL and/or Snowflake)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar)
  • Familiarity with containerization tools (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Working knowledge of Linux
  • Experience testing event-driven or message-driven architectures (Apache Kafka preferred)
  • Experience with the full SDLC and Agile QA processes
  • Proficiency with Git and version control workflows
  • Ability to independently investigate ambiguous issues and drive them to resolution without heavy direction
  • Comfortable reading and reasoning about production code, not just writing tests against it
  • Java experience is a plus


Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets

We value the total wellbeing of our people - including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:

  • Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement


  • Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days


  • Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services


  • 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire


  • Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan


  • Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation


  • Employee referral bonus program


  • Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities


Some of our associates' favorite benefits and perks include:

  • Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office


  • Paid Tuition assistance and education opportunities


  • Generous charitable giving company match


  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits


  • On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers


Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market-informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $93,500-$121,000, with actual compensation determined by job-related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.

This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long-term equity programs.

Additional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.

Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any other third party communication tools for recruiting purposes.

About Chicago Board Options Exchange

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, located at 433 West Van Buren Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange with an annual trading volume of around 1.27 billion at the end of 2014. CBOE offers options on over 2,200 companies, 22 stock indices, and 140 exchange-traded funds. The Chicago Board of Trade established the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1973. The first exchange to list standardized, exchange-traded stock options began its first day of trading on April 26, 1973, in celebration of the 125th birthday of the Chicago Board of Trade. The CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and owned by Cboe Global Markets.
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