Pay range: USD $150,000.00 - $180,000.00 / 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.
The Financial Planning team within Personalized Investing Engineering (PIE) builds the experiences and platform to support clients in planning for their futures - to give them a unique way to translate their goals into actions. In Financial Planning, we are looking for a Senior Software Developer in the role of technical lead. You will be working with product and architecture to build secure, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern software development practices. These practices include pair programming and test-driven development. You will help guide other developers in the team and help them make technical decisions. Additionally, you will be working closely with the team lead to come up with delivery solutions for a set of requirements.
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If you're looking to bring your expertise to a firm that will provide consistent challenges, promoting development and ownership of your career, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities include
- Leading other developers on the team and providing technical guidance. Ability and interest in mentoring other engineers.
- Designing and implementing REST API services in Java and using SQL databases to manage data.
- Writing unit and integration tests and help set up the CI/CD pipeline while working with DevOps.
- Adhering to best-effort Trunk-based development (TBD) which includes writing automation code along with the completion of a feature.
- Delivering a project to production while working with release management.
- Upholding Schwab technology standards.
- Solving technical problems with limited oversight.
- Challenging the status quo and pushing for better software engineering and Agile practices.
- Leading team members to produce performant and scalable systems through engineering and operational excellence.
- Openness to learn, and the ability to work collaboratively with the team.
What you have
Required qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related field is required.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with application and service development.
- Professional experience with RESTful API development.
- Advanced knowledge of Java and build automation tools such as Maven or Gradle.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate complex software solutions to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Bamboo.
- Participate in engineering practices such as code reviews, service discovery, and environment strategy.
- Provide support, including on-call support when necessary.
- Professional experience with relational databases (SQL Server is preferred.)
- Professional experience with source code repository tools, such as Bitbucket and GitHub.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the Financial Services industry is strongly preferred.
- Experience with both Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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