Lead Java Developer

Your opportunity

Your opportunity

Charles Schwab Investment Management Technology provides application strategy, development and support for the Investment Management teams located in San Francisco CA, Denver CO and Chicago IL. Applications support the investment life cycle to include front office functions such as Equity and Fixed Income Trading, Portfolio Management, Investment Risk and Trade Compliance.

We are looking for adeveloperwith demonstrated ability todevelop/testapplicationswithinthe financialspace in adata centric environment. This is amid-senior levelindividual contributor position aimed at deliveringdevelopmentto theInvestment Advisoryteam.

Whoyou are:

• Above all else you’rean engineerand a full stackdeveloper(Data-Services-UI). You solve problems throughbuilding a robust, stable, secure application development. You’re curious and hungry to learn new things andlooktomake along-lastingimpact on the project.

• Youdeveloped features andunittested complex systems in the past. Youare strong in Java, SpringBoot,Spring Batch,Strutsknow how to create your own REST services (in any language) andare familiar withparsing JSON and XML.

• You worked in an Agile environmentin the past. Iterativefeaturedevelopment and working aspart of a distributed engineeringteam doesn’t scare you.

• You contribute toopen-sourceprojects. If you have github.com contributions –we’d love to check them out

• You’re lifelong learner. You’re able to grasp difficult concepts and complex designs andstayson top of new and emerging technologies. Do you have a stackoverflow.com account?

What you have

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as software developer/architectusingJAVAprogramminglanguage(Java, JSP, Struts, SpringBoot,Spring Batch,EJB, FjTask, Redis, Oracle, Maven,GitHub, Jenkins).

• Good understandingofinvestment/trading life cycleandfamiliar withcompliance use cases and data requirements to supportthelifecycle

• Understanding of Security Tools anditsbehaviors

• Tools : SAST DAST SCA like Veracode, BlackDuck,Whitehat, Qualys

• Intermediate to advanced understanding of common CVEs and potential remediations

• Understanding of commonly used Securitylibs (preferably Java) 

• Experiencein spring/strutsframeworks. Ability toleadand help the team with technicalinputs.

• Practical knowledge and use of Design Patterns(Strategy, Factory, Singletonetc)

• Experienceusing ‘git’as source control system (cherry-pick, merge conflict resolutionshould be second nature to you) 

• Experience working in CI/CD environment. (Bamboo)One should be able tocreate, modify and execute job from scratch using ‘git’ as source

• Experience in oracle, DB2, Mongo, Redis database concepts

• Comfort with the Atlassiantoolset (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr)

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or similarareaof study

• Financial Services experience is a strong plus

• Tech stack – Java, JSP, Struts, Spring, EJB, FjTask, Redis, Oracle, Maven,GitHub, Jenkins

• Mentor junior developers on the best coding practices.

• Behavioral

• Proactiveness

• Ability to collaborate across teams

• Willing to take on challenging unknown efforts

• Ability to deliver with-in SLA

• Hands-on developer & servant leadership