Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lead

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.

Job Duties: Manage software platform support and development for key Schwab initiatives. Duties include: understanding the needs of the business and using this knowledge to align on a solution and drive delivery. Deliver efficient solutions on time and engage your teams and partners on better ways of delivering. Provide advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work. Advocate for what your team needs to deliver and manage effectively risk. Proactively able to see gaps and mitigate risks such as delivery, scalability, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, and work to respond to them. Effectively navigate cross-functional communication to ensure alignment between teams and within one team. Cultivating a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for getting better together. Collaborate with your internal partners and product owners to have a shared understanding of risk, so the team is pulling in the right work, at the right time. Reducing technical debt over time. Foster an environment of continuous improvement. Understand Engineering KPIs and seek experiments to improve them. Anticipate future staffing requirements and partner with Talent Acquisition or staffing vendor. Seeing opportunities for team member’s professional development and collaborating with the right partners to make it happen. Providing coaching, mentorship, and career development. This position oversees 4 employees and 26 contractors.

What you have

Job Requirements: Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 84 months of progressive, post-Bachelor’s experience in a related occupation. . Experience must include the following: O2 system; Actively developing large scale software using a modern language like Java or .Net; Software development management experience; Leading teams of ~10 people comprised of full-time, onshore, and offshore in a large organization using Lean Kanban practices; Microservices in the cloud; Relational or NoSQL databases; and Messaging technologies including (Rabbit MQ or Kafka).

We offer competitive pay and benefits. Starting compensation depends on related experience. Annual bonus and other eligible earnings are not included in the ranges above. Benefits include: 401(k) w/ company match; employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, volunteering, 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions; paid parental leave and family building benefits; tuition reimbursement; health, dental, and vision insurance; hybrid/remote work schedule available for eligible positions (subject to Schwab’s internal approach to workplace flexibility).