Senior Java Developer – Schwab Investing Themes
About the role
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.
Schwab Investing Themes empowers investors to align their portfolios with the trends and ideas that matter most to them. With more than 100,000 clients, over $1 billion in assets, and 45 actively managed investment themes, this business continues to expand rapidly. As a Senior Java Developer, you will help build the next generation of Investing Themes capabilities. You'll design and enhance scalable backend services, APIs, and cloud-enabled solutions that support a growing platform serving clients and advisors across Schwab. Working closely with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders, you'll help deliver innovative technology that improves performance, scalability, resiliency, and client experience. This role offers the opportunity to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, participate in architectural decisions, and contribute to solutions that directly impact Schwab clients.
Responsibilities
- Design and enhance scalable backend services, APIs, and cloud-enabled solutions for the Investing Themes platform
- Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative technology improving performance, scalability, resiliency, and client experience
- Lead technical initiatives and participate in architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers and contribute to solutions directly impacting Schwab clients
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and/or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of professional experience developing applications using Java and Spring
- Demonstrated software development skills to design, build, test, and support scalable enterprise applications
- Advanced backend development experience building APIs, services, and distributed applications
- Experience developing and maintaining REST and/or SOAP APIs
- Demonstrated quality assurance practices including automated testing, TDD, and quality-focused development
- Experience using AI-enabled development tools or automated code analysis solutions to improve productivity and software quality
- Experience working within Agile collaboration environments utilizing Scrum delivery practices
- Ability to troubleshoot application and environment issues while maintaining production stability
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Hibernate and modern Java ecosystem frameworks
- Experience developing cloud-based applications and distributed systems
- Experience with MongoDB, SQL, or NoSQL technologies
- Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies
- Experience with Cloud Foundry or similar cloud platforms
- Experience leading code reviews and mentoring software engineers
- Experience improving platform performance, scalability, and reliability
- Demonstrated technical leadership in architecture discussions and engineering decision making
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define and prioritize technology solutions
Learning Opportunities
This role provides exposure to:
- Large-scale financial technology platforms
- Cloud-native application design and operational excellence
- AI-enabled software development practices
- Modern API architecture and integration patterns
- Technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring
- Enterprise-scale software delivery and platform modernization
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