Senior Software and Platform 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.

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(s).

Schwab Retirement Technologies (SRT) develops and maintains a broad set of retirement applications utilized by the Third Party Administrator (TPA) retirement services industry.  Our team is seeking a Software Development & Platform Engineer with a passion for supporting and enabling development teams.  Our mission is to build, maintain, and modernize our robust set of solutions.

As a Software & Platform Engineer, you will need to be a self-starter who partners well with others and engages with multiple teams to achieve technical success. You’ll be a Technical Lead working with teams to identify and address opportunities to support all SRT agile teams from a coding perspective but also from CI/CD pipeline perspective.

In this role you will:

• Be part of the Platform Engineer team which includes:
  • Software development of SRT enterprise applications
  • Strategy to implement performance and load testing environments
  • Strategy to implement dual production environments (A/B, Blue/Green)
  • Strategy to implement Launch Darkly, Redis, Event Based Architecture
• Be a liaison to our Service Availability Engineering team to include such responsibilities as CI/CD process evolution and issue management, and improvements to observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Coordination, and tracking of all Schwab related security programs which includes: Veracode, Penetration Testing, DAST, Blackduck, etc.
• Analyze and potentially resolve new technical initiatives.
• Monitor and maintain system and software currency.
• Provide input and support to agile team Automation Engineers.
• May provide development support for project initiatives.

What you have

Required qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree in: Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related field with 7+ years of progressive, post- Bachelor’s related experience.
•    Advanced .NET development skills, with applicable experience developing in .NET/.NET Core.
•   Advanced coding experience in C#
•   Knowledge of object-oriented design patterns.
•   Professional experience with RESTful API development.
•   Professional experience with relational databases (SQL Server is preferred)
•   Professional experience with SQL and SQL Stored Procedures
•   Professional experience with source code repositories tools, GitHub
•   Professional experience with CI/CD pipelines.
•   Professional experience with distributed multi-tier applications
•   Professional experience with the Agile methodology.
•   Experience with production deployments
•   Experience with load and performance testing environment setup
•   Experience with dual production environments. Also known as A and B domains and or Blue and Green domains
•   Ability to conceptualize the best tactical approach for a team to deliver a solution
•   Ability to follow and guide best practice solutions
•   Ability to effectively communicate complex software solutions to both technical and nontechnical audiences
•   Ability to present project details to technical and nontechnical audiences
•   Effective relationship builder: ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using Copilot and/or other AI tools for development
• Experience developing single-page UI applications and reusable components using Angular
• Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience developing enterprise financial service applications
• Experience working in the Retirement or Financial Services industries
• Experience using Splunk

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