Software Developer

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 Core Technology Solution (CTS) Client Data Management Team (CDMT) is responsible for Charles Schwab's core customer and account data including system of record, business event publishing & consumption, along with hundreds of modern RESTful and legacy APIs which feed our many channels and client experiences!

We are looking for a talented developer to join us to modernize and enhance customer and account technology landscape with use of service and event-oriented architecture. This opportunity will leverage your passion and experience around 'performant' microservices and context-based business event processing along with modernizing legacy SOAP services. You will make use of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Yugabyte, Kafka, and RabbitMQ to create scalable solutions for a new digital enterprise. Your solutions will need to scale horizontally and demonstrate pragmatic thinking around non-functional requirements.

You will work with smart people that love what they do and want to make a difference. At Schwab, we strive to see the world through our client's eyes; this mindset helps shape the way we collaborate and work together to achieve our strategic outcomes.

• Work with the team in execution of development and delivery of the organization's software products to Production
• Manage day-to-day activities and influence team members to leverage, follow and support Agile software development practices
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
• Work with Scrum Master and product owner to provide development sizing & cost analysis estimates
• Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve software quality standards
• Support release manager to assemble releases and drive improvements in the release process
• Assist Scrum Master in resolving needs and roadblocks identified by team members
• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases
• Provide hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for other members of the development team
• Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans
• Create artifacts for each project such as Software Architecture documentation, Technical Use Cases, and Code Review Packages
• Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers to review and improve code quality, requirements specification and design methodologies
• Prototype, validate and create specific application solutions for the business

What you have

Requirements:

• BS/BA/MS in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
• Minimum 6+ years of software development experience
• Minimum 2 years' experience with on-line security for user authentication\authorization
• Minimum 4 years' experience developing/managing REST based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment
• Minimum 4 years' experience working in of Agile software development methodologies, practices, values, and procedures
• Minimum 3 years' experience performing performance testing, tuning and scalability improvements
• Minimum 4 years' experience using building and supporting applications deployed on public/private cloud preferably on PCF or GCP
• Minimum 5 years' experience in applying object-oriented analysis, design patterns, development, implementation, and maintenance
• Minimum 5 years' experience building server-side applications utilizing Java Spring framework
• Minimum 3 years' experience providing guidance, direction to the junior members of the team
• Minimum 1 year experience building messaging and batch applications
• Minimum 1 year experience doing production support

Nice to haves:

• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
• Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines
• Experience working on managing Customer and Account data and onboarding new Customer and Accounts in financial domain a huge plus