Senior Software Developer

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.

Schwab is recruiting a driven, results-oriented software technical lead who shares our passion for technology, innovation and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests.

This position will be part of Digital Utilities Technology team at Schwab, and we will focus on driving client-centricity, reducing time to market & increasing efficiency. The model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.

You will work closely with technical leads and Product Owners to implement new features, enhancements, and fixes for a large and complex Digital Services Technology team. This team leads the systems and platforms that send all email, push, SMS, and other omni-channel messages and communications to Schwab’s valued clients. You will be a key contributor of extending the excellence of Schwab’s core digital platforms and experiences, providing Schwab’s clients and advisors with key digital capabilities. Schwab pushes the boundaries of digital service and digital excellence, and these teams are at the forefront of creating and delivering these capabilities.

This opportunity will be part of a larger group called Cross Enterprise Services (CES) which is focused on delivering consistent, enterprise quality and highly performant shared services for all of Schwab’s systems as building blocks for outstanding end-user experiences. CES offers a wide range of technology opportunities for great people to grow and demonstrate their skills.

What you have

• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and processes.

• Demonstrates strong passion for design, development, testing, deployment, and support of technology for Digital Services Technology applications.

• Create artifacts for each project such as API documentation, Technical Use Cases, design documentation.

• Working with an Agile team to deliver solutions.

• Demonstrate adaptability in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.

• Demonstrate the ability to effectively partner with team members to assist in attaining individual, team, and department objectives.     

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 computer science or related field.

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise software development, with expertise in Full-Stack Java application development, enterprise web technologies, and mentoring junior developers in agile, high-performing teams

• 7+ years of experience building REST services that support high volume transactions in highly available environments.

• 8+ years demonstrated real world experience in database principles, such as SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

• 5+ years working on systems and platforms managing content and delivering email, push, SMS, and other omni-channel messages and communications.

• 3+ years of working on Informatica workflows.

• 4+ years of experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).

• Knowledge and experience in RESTful service design and implementation using Spring Boot.

• Comfortable with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) concepts, unit testing principles and implementations, API test automation techniques as well as automated deployment pipeline tools.

• Experience with Atlassian tool suite is strongly preferred: JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo

• Proven experience in software engineering principles, such as software design patterns and SOLID principles.

• Ability to fully support all development phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Ability to review requirements, translate these requirements into a design, implement and fully test this design; testing experience should include all aspects of testing (unit, functional, integration, end-to-end)

• Must be able to quickly grasp complex concepts and learn new technologies.

• Ability to work independently and to effectively interact and collaborate with all types of stakeholders, both technical and business, peers, and leaders

• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment

• Effective time management. Must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively

• Proven ability to work independently while serving in a leadership role within a team

• Be able to work in a Hybrid model. This role is not eligible for full remote.

Preferred qualifications:

• Nice to have knowledge on spring batch processing.

• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.

• Willingness to learn all aspects of tech stack and document.

• Ability to research and document production and test environments along with architecture and design work.

• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment

• Experience working in a financial service organization.

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