Cboe Global Markets
Software Engineer, Backend (Clearing)
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$9,558 more — $117,083 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $117,083 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters.
- We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy.
- Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing and maintaining scalable microservices in Java.
- Building services that support clearing workflows including trade processing, margin and settlement.
- Operating what you build, including the metrics, logs and traces that let you diagnose it in production.
- Contributing to architecture decision records and design documents before implementation begins.
- Supporting delivery across the full software lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing and production support
- Experience building and operating distributed, service-based systems in production
- Solid grounding in object-oriented and functional programming, software engineering principles, design patterns, data modeling and SQL
Requirements
- Production engineering discipline, meaning you have owned services you also had to keep running
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice to have
- Python, which we rely on for analytics work and rapid prototyping
- JVM languages such as Clojure, Scala or Kotlin
- The FIX messaging protocol
- Distributed tracing and observability tooling
- Current technology stack:
- Java on Kubernetes.
- Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions.
- PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux.
Compensation
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
Benefits
- Minimum Education:
- At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
- 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.
- The anticipated base salary range for this role is $107,525-$139,150, with actual compensation determined by job‑related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.
Company info
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
- We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Cboe Global Markets's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.