Senior Java Engineer

About the role

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 Technology Services provides innovative, reliable technology that helps clients and advisors manage their financial lives. Within Cross Enterprise Services, the Digital Messaging Technology team supports the high-volume platforms that deliver email, push notifications, SMS, and other communications across Schwab. In this role, you will design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable Java applications, REST APIs, and backend services across the messaging platform. You will partner with technical leads, Product Owners, and distributed Agile teams to solve complex problems, make thoughtful design decisions, strengthen platform reliability, and deliver capabilities that improve the client experience. Your impact will extend beyond development through mentoring, technical documentation, automated testing, CI/CD improvements, and the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools. Success requires strong problem-solving, collaboration, and adaptability as priorities and technologies evolve.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable Java applications, REST APIs, and backend services across the messaging platform.
• Partner with technical leads, Product Owners, and distributed Agile teams to solve complex problems, make thoughtful design decisions, strengthen platform reliability, and deliver capabilities that improve the client experience.
• Mentor junior developers, produce technical documentation, implement automated testing, improve CI/CD pipelines, and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 9+ years of professional software development experience building enterprise web applications, including full-stack Java development and mentoring junior developers.
• 5+ years of experience building REST services for high-volume, highly available environments.
• 6+ years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including SQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• 4+ years of experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful services using Spring Boot.
• Experience applying software design patterns and SOLID principles to scalable application development.
• Experience translating requirements into technical designs and testing solutions through unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts, API test automation, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, make sound decisions, and manage competing priorities in a distributed environment.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
• Experience with Spring Batch processing.
• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated environment