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 preferredcandidate 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.

As a .NET Developer, you will need to be a self-starter who partners well with others.   You will be working on a service integration layer distributed across a handful of applications and components.  These services support a highly visible and mission critical solution called ComplianceOne, which provides business process automation and related integrations for enterprise management of FINRA registrations and disclosures.  You will have the opportunity to work with a number of different integration patterns in a modern SOA architecture, hosted in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute and improve deployment pipeline capabilities using tools such as Github, Bamboo, PCF, Sonar, and Veracode. 
• Ensure development work timelines are coordinated with release schedules and project goals. 
• Production support via collaborative troubleshooting and debugging, fix coding and testing, and improvements to alerting/monitoring. 
• Development and maintenance of a wide variety of integration types including API, Event, and Flat File.

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:

▪  BA/BS degree in Computer Science OR related practical experience
▪  2+ years of C#/.NET development experience, with an emphasis on API development and back-end services
▪  2+ years of .NET Core/.NET 5/.NET 6 development experience
▪  Proficiency in creating and consuming RESTful services
▪  Expertise and enthusiasm for unit testing patterns (TDD/BDD) and methodologies
▪  Demonstrated knowledge of OOP and SOLID principles
▪  Application performance evaluation and tuning skills
▪  Knowledge of authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth 2, SAML, JWT)
▪  Proficiency working with SQL based RDBMS (e.g., SQL Server, MySql) and T-SQL
▪  Hands-on familiarity with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Bamboo, GitLab, AzureDevOps)
▪  Exposure to container based application deployment environments (e.g., Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, ACS)
▪  Experience with message broker and streaming platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka)

Preferred Qualifications:

▪  Experience using Data Lakes, particularly Splunk
▪  Hand-on experience with FINRA Registration and Disclosure APIs
▪  Usage of UML to facilitate design and architectural discussions
▪  Understanding of Agile software development principles, including experience participating in a Scrum-based delivery team

Job Sub-Family Specific Competencies:

• ​Analytical Thinking - Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach
• Software Release and Deployment -  ​Managing the deployment of software updates while ensuring compliance with safety, security, and quality standards​
• Software Development - ​Implementing standards, processes, and methods to create, test, and verify software components, ensuring reliability and resolving operational problems and bugs​
• Persuasive Communication​ - Ability to plan and deliver communications that are impactful and persuasive with their intended audiences
• Attention To Communication - Ensuring that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed

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