Senior Software Development Engineer - Advisor Services Technology

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.

The Advisor Services Technology team is responsible for managing the entirety of our digital products designed specifically for to our Institutional and Independent Advisor clients. The Advisor Services - Trading Services Technology team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and support Trading applications, such as Thinkpipes, used by Advisor Services Trading teams.

This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute to within a highly collaborative culture and agile team environment. The ability to deliver innovative, cost effective, reliable solutions is key to success in this role. Our Software Development Engineers are driven to learn, grow, and continuously contribute to evolving the Schwab experience and technology.

What you'll do:

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of Advisor Services Trading systems.
• Effectively translate user requirements into technical designs.
• Partner with Solution Architects and Platform Architects to ensure implementations meet the solution architecture and design.
• Align the solutions with the platform strategy.
• Learn about the business of Schwab and Advisor Services and identify opportunities to improve the client experience with your technical solutions.
• Work collaboratively with other engineers, product owners, and end users to creatively solve problems.
• Advocate for agile practices to increase delivery agility.
• Create, maintain and ensure adherence to development, coding and testing standards.
• Introduce new technologies and tools to support team delivery effectiveness and efficiency and optimize for delivery of business value.
• Support your solutions throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field of study
• Minimum 5 years' experience leading an information technology software delivery organization across multiple technical product disciplines
• 5+ years' experience working in, and leading, Agile (Scrum) delivery teams with a focus on continuous improvement and a track record of high performance
• 5+ years' experience transforming teams through technology, organization, culture, process, and business change management
• 5+ years' experience working with Java UI / Desktop UI and relevant technologies
• 5+ years' experience with Java constructs and features
• 5+ years' experience with design and architectural patterns, especially Java concurrency patterns
• 5+ years' in-depth experience with code versioning tools, such as Github, etc.
• 5+ years' experience with JVM internals and tuning techniques with ability to demonstrate deep knowledge and expertise in Java ecosystem vulnerabilities
• 5+ years' working hands on with Oracle database
• 2+ years' experience /knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, AWT
• 2+ year's demonstrating extensive knowledge of design principles behind a scalable application (vertical and horizontal)
• 3+ years' experience with JMS (Kafka, Rabit MQ), other messaging systems
• 3+ years' experience handling batch processing of very large data sets
• 5+ years' experience using Spring, XML, JSON, Streams Deserialization, effective error and exception handling techniques, multithreading and synchronization as well as RESTful web services and Service-oriented architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field of study
• Strong knowledge of complex Options, Futures, Order Matching and Routing principles
• Experienced in implementing real time trading applications.
• Developing complex trading platforms in Cloud (Google Cloud Platform, AWS)
• Ability to work hands on with team members to inspire and motivate all levels of staff towards both tactical and strategic delivery goals
• Ability to drive change with external counterparties and vendors, managing and enhancing relationships and services provided
• Outstanding performer, persistent and pro-active leader, detailed oriented, and driven to exceed expectations
• Skilled communicator and negotiator with exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills