Salary: USD $73,100 - $149,400 / 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.

Charles Schwab has been a leader in financial services for nearly four decades, working to make investing more affordable, accessible, and understandable to all. Driven by our purpose to champion every client's goals with passion and integrity, we're committed to providing an environment that respects and appreciates the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our goal, as seen through clients' eyes, is that Schwab continuously improves on being a premier financial service provider through best-in-class service, technology, products, people, and advice.

• 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.

• 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.

• Must haves:
  • 5+ years of experience working with Java UI / Desktop UI and relevant technologies.
  • Proficiency with Java 8/11 constructs and features
  • Deep knowledge of internals of JVM and techniques of tunning on VM
  • Expertise with different design and architectural patterns especially Java concurrency patterns
  • Hands on experience /knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing. Angular
  • Extensive knowledge of design principles behind a scalable application (vertical and horizontal)
  • In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, e.g. Git
  • Understanding of building tools: Gradle, Maven, TeamCity/Bamboo CI is big plus.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Spring, Web Technologies, XML, JSON, Streams Deserialization/ Deserialization, effective errors and exception handling techniques, Multithreading and Synchronization as well as RESTful web services and Service-oriented architecture
  • Deep knowledge and practical experience in Java ecosystem vulnerabilities (Veracode, BlackDuck, and other static analysis tools and platforms)
  • Strong knowledge of ORACLE and ideally ANSI SQL
  • Experience with JMS (IBM MQ, Rabit MQ), other messaging systems (Kafka)
  • Strong understanding of batch processing of large data sets
• Pluses:
  • Strong knowledge of complex Options, Futures, Order Matching and Routing principles
  • Experienced in implementing real time trading applications.

• 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