Pay range: USD $90,000.00 - $200,100.00 / Year
Your opportunity
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.
- Perform product analysis and development tasks of increasingly complex nature which may require extensive research and analysis.
- Work independently in the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of complex systems with fast turn-around.
- Provide detailed analysis of problems, prepare detailed design documents with recommendations.
- Apply innovation, creativity and improvement to development process and implement process and procedural improvements.
- Stay current with technology and industry best practices to ensure proper utilization of these in software development.
- Work on multiple projects utilizing and leading global/offshore teams.
- Provide adequate and proactive support for various applications.
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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.
Qualifications:
- 4-year degree in Computer Science or related experience
- Able to interpret business requirements and programming specifications to write Java programs that solve business needs.
- Significant exposure to and demonstrated proficiency in all aspects of programming and analysis, including design factors, software requirements, systems facilities, and execution protocols.
- Experience with Architecture design of multi-tiered client/server applications.
- Must be well organized and self motivated and be able to work with minimal supervision.
- Strong verbal/written communication skills.
- Ability to work with others in a team environment.
- Ability to work on aggressive schedules. May require work beyond normal hours (weekends or evenings).
- Ability to lead and influence other developers onshore as well as offshore.
- 2+ years of experience of developing and testing of trading applications in advisory space
Technical Skills:
Must haves:
- 5+ years of experience working with Java UI / Desktop UI and relevant technologies.
- Extensive experience with Java 8/11 and higher language construct and features.
- Expertise in GCP and related technologies with strong GCE, Anthos/GKE containerization
- Expertise with multithreaded UI based on Swing UI libraries and UI extensions, Java FX, J2SE, JDBC, JMS, JMX, JNI, Design Patterns, Rest services.
- Strong understanding and working experience with Spring boot, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, string REST.
- Strong understanding of batch processing of large data sets
- Strong Caching and large data sets handling (experience with any: Redis, Aerospike, Ehcache, GigaSpaces, Hazelcast or any others)
- Strong understanding of Java multithreading concepts, best practices, and experience in implementation of server-side components
- Experience with concurrent non-blocking implementation of services collaboration (Reactive extensions)
- Very Strong PostgresSQL and Oracle
- Extensive skills and ability to develop on Linux / Windows / MAC OS
- Extensive practical experience with messaging platforms (KAFKA, IBM MQ, Rabit MQ)
- Strong knowledge of various configuration/source code management tools (Git, Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, TeamCity)
- Experience in the financial/brokerage industry.
Pluses:
- Strong knowledge of complex Options, Futures, Order Matching and Routing principles
- Experience converting hardware-based server-side components to VM based (containerization: Kubernetes, Docker or other).
- GWT
What's in it for you
At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:
- 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