Full Stack Engineer

About the role

The Apigee Gateway team within Enterprise Middleware plays a critical role in powering Schwab’s digital ecosystem. As a senior engineering leader on this team, you will help shape and advance Schwab’s strategic API platform, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient connectivity across applications, partners, and client experiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution of a modern API-first architecture
• Help drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform scalability
• Solve complex technical challenges that directly impact business outcomes and client experiences
• Guide strategic migration efforts
• Support enterprise onboarding initiatives
• Improve observability and reliability
• Establish standards that enable secure and efficient API consumption throughout the organization

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Sound technical decision-making
• Able to collaborate across engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure, and product teams
• Proven ability to lead initiatives, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes with limited supervision

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) initiatives and integrating AI-enabled capabilities into software engineering processes
• Experience designing agentic workflows, intelligent orchestration patterns, or multi-agent solutions that automate complex engineering or operational tasks
• Experience supporting API management platforms within regulated industries such as financial services
• Experience with large-scale API traffic management, enterprise onboarding programs, and modernization initiatives
• Experience with content delivery network (CDN) or edge platform technologies such as Akamai
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Kubernetes, networking, and cloud security capabilities
• Experience developing architecture standards, reusable reference patterns, developer enablement tools, or platform automation frameworks
• Experience supporting highly available, enterprise-scale distributed systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of platform capabilities and technical delivery
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating API gateway platforms, including Google Apigee or comparable API management technologies
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and automation capabilities to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and software delivery outcomes
• Experience designing and implementing AI agents, automation workflows, or intelligent engineering solutions that streamline operational or development processes
• Strong programming experience with Java, .NET, or Python, including development of enterprise applications, backend services, microservices, and API integrations
• Hands-on experience with Google Apigee, including API proxy development, shared flows, policy configuration, target servers, and key-value maps
• Experience implementing API security controls including OAuth 2.0, mutual TLS (mTLS), API key validation, and certificate-based authentication
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and lifecycle management of API gateways and related services
• Strong understanding of networking and security concepts including TLS/SSL, certificate management, DNS, load balancing, and secure communication patterns
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring practices, including dashboard development, alerting, and performance analysis
• Experience applying test-driven development practices, including unit, integration, and contract testing

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 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