Lead Software Engineer

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

The Trading Technology Services team is looking for a talented technologist to be the lead for our Order management trading platform. The team is in the process of building ultra-low latency, high volume and reliable next generation platform. When it is completed, the application should support processing several billions of operational transactions during market hours.  This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly visible team that delivers innovative business solutions leveraging emerging technologies at Schwab. 

What you’ll do:

You will be joining us as a Technical Lead focused on providing architectural guidance across multiple projects and teams.  We are looking for a curious person with excellent technical skills, leadership and communication to guide the team through technology challenges while driving towards a target architecture.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an architect in building complex, highly scalable and low latency applications

• Work closely with Enterprise Delivery Managers, Solution Architects and with business teams to architect technology solutions to meet client needs

• Understand complex problems easily and come up with simple solutions

• Lead technical requirements gathering sessions and producing technical requirements and design documents

• Manage the technical delivery of integrations, security, single-sign-on and application customizations

• Provide hands on expert level assistance to developers for technical issues

• Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements efficiently, with greater reusability, and longer life

• Promote and coordinate technical knowledge harvesting within the organization

• Define, communicate and enforce design/coding standards

• Identify reusable code required for our code library and ensure high quality creation of the code

• Track and identify new technologies to solve existing and new business problems

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of solid development experience in distributed and cloud platforms

• Experience with C# and/or Java in a Windows/Linux data center environment

• Experience with async and multi-threaded programming

• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service

• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Experience with cloud services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and public cloud providers

• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

• Experience growing high performing engineering teams

• Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations

• Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends, etc.

• Experience as a technical leader in an organization.  This includes coaching and mentoring, working through complex problems, and working with our business partners to deliver an amazing experience for our clients.  You have qualities that engineers recognize and respect.

• The ability to step in and code to drive a solution that your engineers can build upon

• Deep knowledge of REST and the Web Services

• Knowledge and experience with server side .NET and Java development

• Knowledge of NoSQL and SQL databases (Aerospike, MongoDB, Oracle are preferred)

• Knowledge of IBM MQ, RabbitMQ and Kafka

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities