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.

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.

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

· Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

· Three years or more of hands-on experience in application software development, preferably developing APIs, Batch Jobs and Backend Capabilities for Web applications

· Three plus years’ experience developing unit testing and regression testing development

· Two plus years of API development experience using microservices design patterns

· Technical competency in an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language such as Java, J2EE and JavaScript

· Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in algorithmic thinking and design, data structures

· Strong conceptual knowledge on database design and data modeling

· Strong understanding of Spring framework and Spring ecosystem

· Strong understanding of Git, GitHub and code management

· Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and frameworks such as Scrum

· Self-starter who can grasp difficult concepts quickly

· Strong programming, debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

· Team player with excellent oral and written communication skills

· Positive attitude, enthusiasm, professionalism and strong work ethic with high level of integrity

Desired

· Exposure to cloud platforms such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry

· Coursework and/or experience in JavaScript frameworks like Angular JS

· Coursework and/or experience developing Junit tests

· Experience or familiarity with Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)

· You are driven by innovation, understanding new tools and technologies and have a commitment to lifelong learning

· Our view of “think out of the box” doesn’t mean anything to you because for you, there is no box