Application 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.

Workplace Services Engineering (WSE) is an organization within Schwab Technology Services that is embarking on a major transformation. We support Workplace Services, and we’re shaping the future of how people experience financial wellbeing at work. We partner with leading employers to deliver innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures. This is a fast growing, high impact business where scale meets purpose — where your work directly influences how people plan, save, invest, and succeed.   

As a key growth engine for the firm, we’re investing more than ever to expand our capabilities, modernize platforms, and elevate the experiences we deliver to employers and their employees. Our teams work at the intersection of technology, service, and financial expertise—supporting workplace clients with solutions that scale, adapt, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Here, your ideas help shape what’s next for workplace financial services. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and making a real difference in the workplace services industry, you’ll find your place here.  

What you’ll do:

As our Software Developer III, you will need to be a self-starter who partners well with others. This role is all about getting the job done, so you have a can/will do mentality about all tasks associated with getting phenomenal code out the door. You prioritize mentoring your teammates, and you ask for help when needed. At Schwab, we understand that a highly collaborative environment allows for being wrong sometimes as part of growing and building trust together. As a Schwabbie, you listen to others with an open mind, foster diverse inputs, and respectfully convey your thoughts and opinions in pursuit of our collective goals.

In this role, you will:

• Help build a critical part of Schwab’s growth in the Workplace market. 

• Design and build scalable platforms supporting critical workplace applications under the Retirement Plan Services organization supporting millions of participants.  

• Drive modernization initiatives, including API and foundational system improvements that enable faster, safer integration and partnerships  

• Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience to reduce risk and deliver seamless experiences at scale  

• Modernize legacy components to address high risk remediation and compliance while maintaining industry leading standards  

• Leverage AI to innovate processes and outcomes for maximum efficiency and quality.    

• Be part of a collaborative team where you aren’t an “order taker” but an influencer.   

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive application development and design experience to help lead/validate designs on new applications and major enhancements to existing applications across the portfolio.

• An exacting attention to detail and the talent and enthusiasm for producing highly usable and scalable web software solutions using advanced development technologies

• Current working experience with Schwab systems and processes

• Proven excellent technical and business communication skills at various organizational levels

• Confidence 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

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot etc.) to accelerate coding velocity, including leveraging custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to extend AI context into our proprietary internal services and modernize team workflows.

• Builds valuable documentation and communicates and influences effectively.

• An advocate and evangelist for availability, scaling, performance, and customer experience.

• 6+ years of full-stack web development experience

• Skill with C#/.NET Core development

• Confidence using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

• Experience with Angular, TypeScript, and client side MV* frameworks

• Responsive Design and Single Page Applications (SPA) expertise

• Familiarity with unit testing patterns (TDD/BDD) and methodologies

• Solid grasp of SQL fundamentals with hands-on experience interfacing backend services with relational databases

• Experience writing and maintaining Stored Procedures to handle transaction boundaries and complex data aggregation

• Application performance evaluation and tuning skills

• Web Accessibility experience

• Proficiency in creating and consuming RESTful services

• Knowledge of authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth 2, SAML, JWT)

• Understanding of Agile software development principles, including experience participating in a Scrum-based delivery team

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

If this sounds like your dream job, we look forward to sharing more information with you.

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