Manager - Software Development and 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.

Your opportunity

Charles Schwab Investment Management Technology provides application strategy, development and support for the Investment Management teamslocatedin San Francisco CA, DenverCOand Chicago IL. Applications support the investment life cycle to include front office functions such as Equity and Fixed Income Trading, Portfolio Management, Investment Risk and Trade Compliance.

We are looking for a senior programmaticdeveloperwithdemonstratedability todevelop/testapplicationswithinthe financialspace in adata centric environment. This is asenior levelindividual contributor position aimed at deliveringdevelopmentto theInvestment Advisoryteam.

Whoyou are:

• Above allelseyou’rean engineerand a full stackdeveloper(Data-Services-UI). You solve problemsthroughbuildinga robust, stable, secure application development.You’recurious and hungry to learn new things andlooktomake along-lastingimpact on the project.

• Youdeveloped features and unittested complex systems in the past.Youare strong in Java, SpringBoot,SpringBatch,Struts, knowhow to create your own REST servicesandare familiar withparsing JSON and XML.

• You worked in an Agile environmentin the past. Iterativefeaturedevelopment and working aspart of a distributed engineeringteamdoesn’tscare you.

• You contribute toopen-sourceprojects. If you have github.com contributions –we’dlove to check themout.

• You’relifelonglearner.You’reable to grasp difficult concepts and complex designs andstayson top of new and emerging technologies. Do you have a stackoverflow.com account?

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

• 8+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working assoftwaredeveloper/architectusingJAVAprogramminglanguage.

• Good understandingofinvestment/trading life cycleandbefamiliar withcompliance use cases and data requirements to supportthelifecycle.

• Understanding of Security Tools anditsbehaviors

• Tools:SAST DAST SCA like Veracode,BlackDuck,Whitehat, Qualys

• Intermediate to advanced understanding of common CVEs and potential remediations

• Understanding of commonly used Securitylibs (preferably Java) 

• Experiencein spring/strutsframeworks. Ability to lead and help the team with technical inputs.

• Practical knowledge and use of Design Patterns(Strategy, Factory, Singletonetc)

• Experienceusing ‘git’ as source control system (cherry-pick, merge conflict resolutionshould be second nature to you) 

• Experience working inCI/CD environment. (Bamboo)One should be able tocreate,modifyand execute job from scratch using ‘git’ as source

• Experience inOracle, DB2, Mongo, Redis database concepts

• Comfort with the Atlassiantoolset (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr)

• Experience mentoring junior level engineersismust.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or similarareaof study

• Financial Services experience is a strong plus

• Tech stack – Java, JSP, Struts, Spring, EJB,FjTask, Redis, Oracle, Maven,Bitbucket, Jenkins

• Behavioral

• Proactiveness

• Ability to collaborate across teams

• Willing to take on challenging unknown efforts

• Ability to deliver with-in SLA

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