Sr Specialist, Software Engineering - Digital Utilities Technology

Your opportunity

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for all members of the team to ensure team and project success.
• Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Prototype, validate and create specific application solutions for the business.
• Lead team in execution of development pipeline and delivery of the organization’s software products to QA, and ultimately to Production.
• 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.
• Identify technology risks and dependencies early to 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.
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve software quality standards.
• Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
• Support release manager to assemble releases and drive improvements in the release process.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of solid backend development experience in C#/.Net.
• Expert with frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core, Spring, Hibernate and understanding of UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Expert in object-oriented design, SOA, design patterns, development, implementation and maintenance.
• Exceptional experience designing and implementing REST based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment.
• Experience working with event streaming or message queuing frameworks like RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Strong experience in Cloud Native Applications and Micro Services Architecture.
• Strong experience in building enterprise scale web solutions based upon n-tier architecture using open-source technologies (Angular / React), Microsoft Web API, and SQL / No-SQL Databases.
• Strong experience and demonstrate proficiency in web-based technologies such as Angular/React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, jQuery, Backbone, Bootstrap, Node or similar.
• Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards, Guidelines and SOLID principles.
• You should be comfortable in a fast-paced customer focused environment that continually embraces the latest technologies and techniques.
• Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problem.
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement timely, cost effective, quality solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various level of technical and non-technical management.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues using best practices to support live applications.
• Prioritizes compliance, security, and scalability of data systems.
• Executes strategies to restore services promptly and address disruptions.
• Addresses QA challenges by applying best practices in testing and compliance.
• Validates requirements and constraints to support effective development and operations.
• Monitors and addresses security policy violations using best practices.
• Resolves software design challenges using predictive and adaptive methods.
• Applies best practices to build, test, and validate software components while resolving issues.
• Consolidates software changes into secure, stable releases using best practices.
• Ensures systems align with cloud architectures using modern design methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed multi-tier applications, WMI, NO SQL databases, and SQL is preferred.
• Experience in developing applications using modern streaming technologies (like Kafka) and protocols.
• Independently plans own work and are accountable to meet schedules and deliverables.
• Experience providing guidance, direction, and feedback to other technical staff to meet agreed upon objectives.
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment.
• Conducts in-depth analysis, evaluates factors, and influences decisions with insights.
• Ensures stakeholders has the necessary information for informed decisions.
• Analyzes market dynamics, provides guidance to peers, and aligns work with business goals.
• Trusts colleagues to manage outcomes.
• Anticipates consequences of situations and acts to prepare for contingencies in assigned tasks.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements creative solutions.
• Influences team quality and effectiveness with decisions.
• Verbally presents ideas confidently, ensuring mutual understanding.
• Builds credibility with expertise, transparency, and confidentiality.
• Delivers powerful messages with persuasive language to drive viewpoint adoption.
• Chooses effective methods to reach ambitious goals and measure outcomes.
• Applies specialized expertise to support initiatives that optimize performance.
• Produces work that meets or exceeds quality expectations.
• Writes concise, well-structured, and engaging business documents.