Mid-Level Java Developer - Wealth and Asset Management at Charles Schwab

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.

Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) engineering is an organization within Schwab Technology Services aligned to support the technology needs of Schwab Asset Management (SAM), Wealth & Advice Solutions (WAS), the Schwab Center for Financial Research (SCFR), and Third-Party Platform teams. Wealth Management Engineering (WME), an organization within WAM Engineering, is dedicated to providing support to WAS which is a growth area for Schwab.

This newly created role will support the future growth of the WAS business. As a Software Engineer, you will enable WME to achieve consistent, predictable, high-quality delivery by implementing best practices, tools, metrics, automation frameworks, and provide oversight in the areas of software development and testing. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, leveraging your technical proficiency to drive innovation and efficiency throughout the development lifecycle. You will deliver high-quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. 

You will play a critical role in supporting key stakeholders across the WAS organization which is focused on high-net worth and ultra-high net worth retail investors.  Supported business functions span Schwab’s Wealth and Investment Solutions including Schwab Wealth Advisory. You will be working with a team of talented and highly motivated technologists that strive to make technology a strategic differentiator for Schwab’s WAS business and their clients by demonstrating the following skills and qualifications.

• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously.
• An exacting attention to detail and enthusiasm for producing highly usable and scalable web software solutions.
• A passion for solving problems in a dynamic customer-focused team environment that uses the newest technologies and techniques.
• A commitment to regularly improving your technical and professional skills, learning emerging technologies and growing as valued team member.
• Influencing the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of projects.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience developing RESTful APIs with Java Spring and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of object-oriented principals and design patterns.
• Application development using TDD Practices like unit testing and Behavior/Feature testing.
• Relational database experience within MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle.
• Understanding of Agile software development principles, including experience participating in a Scrum-based delivery team.
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools using GitHub/GitActions.
• Experience using ‘git’ as source control systems.
• Good interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java 17+.
• Experience developing single page applications with Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Experience with configuring feature flag using Launch Darkly and with web Adobe Analytics tagging.
• Experience of cloud-native enterprise applications deployed in PCF, AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with MongoDB, including database design, and query optimization.
• Demonstrated knowledge in troubleshooting Issues using Splunk, including logging, and creating Splunk alerts.