Pay range: USD $125,000.00 - $145,000.00 / 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.
Personalized Investing Engineering (PIE) develops and operates Schwab's most innovative products with a primary goal of delighting our clients while empowering them to meet their financial objectives. PIE leads delivery of three products, each with a common focus on personalizing the investment experience to the needs of our customers. We invite you to learn more by visiting our product descriptions Thematic Investing, Intelligent Portfolios, and Financial Planning.
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The Digital Advice Technology team is looking for a software engineer to design/develop major enhancements to the Planning suite of products and create new products that positively impact our clients and those who serve our clients. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The ability to deliver innovative, secure, and reliable solutions is key to success in this role. Our Software Applications Engineers are driven to learn, grow, and continuously contribute to evolving the Schwab experience and technology.
We are looking for a versatile software application developer whose role will be distributed across all phases of the SLDC - from early inception, solution design, code, test automation, through to final solution implementation and support. Responsibility and activities include, but are not limited to:
- Analyze, design, develop, debug, configure and modify software systems and/or new products used in local, cloud, networked, mobile, or Internet-related technology. Code may be used in commercial and/or end-user applications.
- Leverage current and evolving technologies to design, code, test, log, debug, document, and analyze current and future applications, all with the goals of Maintainability, Security, Availability, and Scalability.
- Interact with users and/or stakeholders to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
- Lead cooperative efforts among members of project teams.
- Act as a mentor to junior staff members.
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field OR related practical experience
- 5-7+ years professional experience in software engineering
- 4-7+ years leveraging object oriented languages such as C#, .NET, or Java
- 3+ years working with test automation frameworks such as Specflow
- 3+ years developing unit and acceptance tests, and effectively automating test execution
- 3+ years demonstrating excellent oral and written communication skills in a senior engineering role
- 2+ years with GCP or similar cloud deployment platforms
- 2+ years proven experience contributing to all phases of the SDLC
- Requirements review
- Design implementation
- All aspects of testing
- Production implementation and support
- Data analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field OR related practical experience
- Working knowledge of creating cloud-native applications
- Experience developing with .NET Core and/or Java
- Experience with BDD creation and related automation. Cucumber & Ruby preferred
- Experience with test automation as a part of Continuous Integration, enabling Continuous Delivery
- Experience with scrum methodology
- Experience tuning and maximizing performance of UI, API, and CI-related components
- Understanding of common design patterns and appropriate usage
- Ability and desire to contribute to application and platform architecture and design
- Hunger to learn and an intense technical curiosity
- Critical thinker and solutions-oriented
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Desire to learn new technologies
- Tenacity and persistence
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