FULL_TIME

Sr Staff Software Eng

11/21/2025

The Sr Staff Software Engineer independently engineers secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions. They conduct full system testing, develop designs for all aspects of a system, and mentor leads in the design process.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

About The Company

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.

About the Role

The Sr Staff Software Engineering independently engineers secure, scalable and reliable technology solutions to advance CMEG in the global marketplace and serve risk management needs of customers around the world.

Principal Accountabilities:
• Conducts full system testing skills.
• Demonstrates expertise in design and analysis patterns; Identifies best practices, and promotes standards and best practices across development teams.
• Develops designs for all aspects of a system as well as mentors leads in design process.
• Exhibits expert SQL knowledge, Proficient in database modeling and expert in database tuning.
• Exhibits highly advanced language proficiency and independently writes application modules and unit tests and mentors leads on multiple projects and enforces architectures; Influences others across company divisions.
• Optimizes solution intricacies; Ensures best practices are followed; Reviews environment build deployments, release notes and build notices.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

Important Notice: Recruitment fraud is on the rise, with scammers using misleading promises of job offers and interviews to solicit money and personal information from job seekers. CME Group adheres to established procedures designed to maintain trust, confidence and security throughout our recruitment process. Learn more here.

Key Skills

System TestingDesign PatternsBest PracticesDatabase ModelingDatabase TuningSQLApplication DevelopmentUnit TestingArchitecture EnforcementSolution Optimization