Specialist - 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.​

​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 looking for a Software Engineer to join the Trading team that builds and runs high throughput, low latency trading applications. The role will be part of our Sprint based Agile teams playing a dual role supporting the existing Trading platform while building out cloud target architecture and efficiently modernize applications in fast-paced environment. You will design, build, and deploy Schwab’s next generation trading platform. We work hard and have fun in what you do!

Actively participate in all agile related ceremonies
•Writing testable, scalable, and efficient code for business-critical components and leading code reviews
•Utilize SRE principles to design, implement scalable, reliable and resilient systems
•Partner with fellow agile team members in support of sprint delivery
•Partner with QA resources to design and implement automated functional and regression tests
•Work with technical directors to understand and implement their architectural vision
•Take on additional duties in support of operations and production support Trading
•Participate in Developer Driven Automated Testing
•A willingness to learn and grow is a must. Team player with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor
•Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across multiple time zones and locations
•This position requires good interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills

What you have

Required Qualifications

•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related work experience
•2-4 or more years of development experience with demonstrated proficiency in Java, .NET
•1 or more years development experience with databasing technologies like Aerospike, Mongo,Postgres
•Strong knowledge and working experience with web services (REST)
•Knowledge in any cloud based technologies like GCP, AWS or PCF
•Experience in software development of high-performance, low latency trading systems that trade equities, options and/or futures
-       Experience with IBM DB2environments
•Experience/knowledge with SCM (Atlassian tools Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo etc.) and DevOps tool suite is preferred
-      Implementationexperience for integrating automated test harness into continuous integration and delivery pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum Experience adopting or managing continuous Integration and continuous delivery concepts and frameworks
  •Demonstrated experience in writing applications that interact with Atlassian stack APIs
  -      Experience with test driven development preferred (Junit, EasyMock etc.,)