Manager, Software Development & Engineering

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(s).

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development. 

You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs, operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment. 

Key Responsibilities:

Core Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs & having good Security SME knowledge. 
• Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms. 
• Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows. 
• Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability. 

Scale, Performance & Reliability 

• Build and operate highly resilient systems with: 
  
  • API latency SLA < 50ms 
  • Throughput > 5,000 TPS 
  • Availability ≥ 99.9% 
  • Error budget < 0.1% 
• Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery. 
• Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting. 
• Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement. 

Cloud & Deployment 

• Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment. 
• Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning. 
• Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags). 

AI-Enabled Development 

• Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to: 
  
  • Accelerate feature development 
  • Improve code quality and test coverage 
  • Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting 
• Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows.  

Collaboration  

• Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. 
• Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making. 

What you have

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

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services. 
• 6+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security. 
• Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms. 
• 2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols: 
• OAuth 2.0 
• OpenID Connect (OIDC) 
• SAML2.0 
• Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs. 
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency. 
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting. 

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