Specialist - Jr. Java Software Engineer

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.

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

This position will be part the Order Management & Risk Technology team at Schwab.  Our organization implements trading capabilities and risk management capabilities for digital assets, equities, options, futures, and forex for Schwab’s active trader client base at scale of 2+ million trades per day, along with providing an efficient and flexible experience for day-to-day operations, including trading operations and margin associates.       

The Specialist Developer will work within an Agile development team to define, deliver, and manage the lifecycle of software solutions.  This role is dedicated to collaboratively understanding business needs and implementing robust technical solutions that not only meet business objectives but are also reusable, scalable, and secure. They improve delivery outcomes through seamless cross-domain partnership and collaboration with the technology and product teams.

Ideal candidates will be self-motivated with a passion for resolving technical issues quickly and in line with platform strategy and vision. They must have effective time management skills and the ability to prioritize, multitask, and learn new technologies quickly. The ability to work collaboratively across organizations and geographic locations is crucial and good written and verbal communications skills are a must. 

What you have

• Design, develop, and deliver solutions as part of an Agile Scrum team.
• Support and triage issues and participate in production support to help develop resilient and secure systems to prevent issues that impact on our clients. 
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders and technical partners to define strategy and scope of software requirements (decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks)
• Utilize and develop automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve the highest quality in software delivery

Required Qualifications

• 1+ years software development experience in Java
• Experience with an integrated development environment (IDE) preferably IntelliJ
• Experience with source code repository (e.g. bitbucket, github)
• Experience using AI to aid software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to think of the big picture.
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or trading
• Experience with messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, FTL, Red Panda)
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus,  Grafana, Splunk)
• Experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and/or Oracle Coherence
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration  (Docker,  Kubernetes)
• Comfort level with the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo)
• Contributes ideas for new approaches or technologies within a defined scope