Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lead

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 Sr Manager – Software Development and Engineering Lead will work with technical and business
partners to design and maintain optimal programming and environment solutions. Job activities will
involve researching, developing solutions and supporting the tools and processes to gather detailed
user requirements, architecting/developing a solution, and driving strategic planning discussions with
technical, business, and client stakeholders.

• Research and development of (functional and technical specifications documents) production
and test environments, architecture/design/develop solutions
• Develop plans for proof of concept and validation of technology/solutions
• Develop and support the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements
• Participate in strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders
• Identify gaps in processes and services across environments
• Review programming and environment changes and raise awareness for potential impacts
• Effective and efficient utilization of programming tools
• Architect and develop effective solutions that are in line with the organization's vision
• Actively participate in product design and development sessions
• Provide direction to less experienced Programmer/Analysts
• Identify gaps in processes and services across production and test environments
• Develop architectural diagrams/documents, develop software codes and automated test
scripts
• Write efficient, easy to follow technical documentation
• Act as liaison between technical and non-technical counterparts

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrates practical familiarity with GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Code within IDE/CLI-style
workflows.
• Working knowledge of agentic workflows, spec-driven development (translating low-level
design artifacts such as class structures, API contracts, and data models into structured specs
that guide AI-assisted implementation), and custom instructions and prompt engineering, with
the ability to establish team-level practices for effective AI-assisted development.
• Uses AI assistance for common dev tasks (code suggestions, test generation, review support,
automation scripts, troubleshooting) with clear ownership for correctness and quality.
• 4+ years of experience with the following: Java, Spring framework, cloud development, and
Web Services (REST and SOAP) supporting high volume transactions in a Highly Available
environment.
• 4-6 years of experience in Distributed Databases and NoSQL databases; PostgresSQL
(preferred), Aerospike, Yugabyte.
• 4+ year experience working on real-time data and streaming applications.
• 4+ years of experience with continuous build process using Bamboo, Bitbucket/Git, or similar
tools.
• 3+ years of experience with GCP and /or AWS / Azure
• 3+ years of experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, message queues, etc.).
• 2+ years of experience in Cloud deployment in a CI/CD delivery model.
• 1+ years of experience with batch jobs or data pipeline frameworks like Spring Batch,
PySpark etc.
• 1+ years of experience with messaging-based apps using Kafka

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