Java 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. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

Stock Plan Services focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients. We have multiple applications that support this effort. Our vision is to provide employees of both Schwab and our corporate partners with modern, industry-leading products and platforms, while building a culture people love to work in. As we execute this goal, we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. We are fueled by a diverse team of talented team members who continuously raise the bar in delivering best-in-class products and services worldwide. 

This position is a senior role for a candidate who has the capabilities to create user information solutions by developing, implementing, and maintaining Java-based components and interfaces. The candidate writes well-designed, testable, efficient code and ensures designs are in compliance with specifications. The role includes preparing and releasing software components. It involves supporting continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review. In addition, the candidate will support users by developing detailed documentation and assistance tools. The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience in designing and developing Java enterprise applications and extensive experience developing RESTful services. Object-Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns is required. Experience with Spring/Spring Boot is required. Experience with test-driven development or behavior-driven development is a bonus. 

Key Responsibilities

• Actively contribute as a member of a Scrum team, writing code in Java.
• Follow all guidelines for best development practices.
• Participate in all agile ceremonies and appropriately update all tickets for clear tracking.
• Practice and enforce good engineering practices and compliance with company engineering standards.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of work experience in a software development role where the candidate was actively writing and reviewing Java code.
• 7+ years of experience with relational databases; ideally Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• 7+ years of experience writing unit and integration tests. Must be familiar with at least one testing framework (JUnit, Mockito preferred).
• 7+ years of experience using Spring/Spring Boot.
• 7+ years of experience developing RESTful services.
• 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, CircleCI, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience with any cloud platform (PCF, GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and profiling Java applications.
• Experience with Atlassian tool suites: Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem resolution skills.
• Understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.
• Strong ability to design for functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, performance, and privacy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience converting SOAP services to RESTful services.
• Experience with Spring Batch and/or batch processing.

"In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities."