Your opportunity
At Schwab, you are 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.
In this role you will develop coding and design standards for the Advice Suite application and participate in architecture designing and review processes. The applications are based on Java/ J2EE technologies like Spring, Spring Boot, Struts, and JSP. The development tools/ frameworks are web services, APIs, Rabbit MQ’s, middleware, SQL database, oracle, MongoDB, and REDIS. Familiarity with concepts that relate data modeling and data quality; use of Design Patterns (strategy, factory etc.)
Schwab’s Investment Management Technology provides application strategy, development, and support for the Investment Management teams located in San Francisco, Denver, and Chicago. 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 developer with demonstrated ability to develop/test applications within the financial space in a data-centric environment. This is a senior-level individual contributor position aimed at delivering development to the Investment Advisory team. Additionally, this role will perform the role of security champion for the group.
- Above all else you’re an engineer and a full stack developer (Data-Services-UI). You solve problems through building a robust, stable, secure application development. You’re curious and hungry to learn new things and look to make a long-lasting impact on the project.
- You developed features and unit tested complex systems in the past. You have experience testing web applications (Angular) and data (SQL). You are strong in Java, Spring, Struts know how to create your own REST services (in any language) and are familiar with parsing JSON and XML.
- You worked in an Agile environment in the past. Iterative feature development and working as part of a distributed engineering team doesn’t scare you.
- You contribute to open-source projects. If you have github.com contributions – we’d love to check them out.
- You’re a lifelong learner. You’re able to grasp difficult concepts and complex designs and stay on top of new and emerging technologies. You probably have a stackoverflow.com account.
What you have
Required Qualifications- 7+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as a software developer/architect using JAVA programming language. This would include experience in spring/struts frameworks, knowledge, and use of Design Patterns (Strategy, Factory, Singleton etc.), experience working in a CI/CD environment. Experience in oracle, DB2, Mongo, Redis database concepts, use of the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr).
- 2+ years of experience mentoring junior level engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or similar area of study
- Financial Services experience is a strong plus
- Good understanding of investment/trading life cycle and be familiar with compliance use cases and data requirements to support the lifecycle.
- Understanding of Security Tools and its behaviors
- Tools: SAST DAST SCA like Veracode, BlackDuck, Whitehat, Qualys
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of common CVEs and potential remediations
- Understanding of commonly used Security libs
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
What’s in it for you
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance