Specialist

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.

This is Specialist Software Developer role in the WAME (Wealth and Asset Management Engineering) Organization.

WAME is aligned to support the technology needs of Schwab Asset Management Solutions which is a Schwab organization that unites money management, research, and asset management platforms for mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), managed accounts, alternative investments and insurance.

Our team delivers and supports Advice applications and products used by Schwab Representatives and our Clients as they plan for their financial futures. The position will directly support the WAME managed investing and advice technology platform and be responsible for providing technical leadership and software development within the engineering team and for our business partners. As Specialist Software Developer, you will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing delivery environment. It requires highly motivated and focused developers curious to build new and innovative solutions for our clients.

What you’ll do:

• You will bring your Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) techniques and skills to an Agile engineering team
• Actively collaborate with the team in ongoing product maintenance and development, including design, development, review, integration, test, and deployment activities
• Leverage primarily Java and Spring technologies to develop, deliver and maintain, world class enterprise and high-quality applications to our customers.
• Support Production deployments
• Provide Production Support on a rotational basis for suite of Advice apps
• Learn, develop and deploy security best practices during code development and deployment activities
• Develop proof of concepts under guidance of Sr Developers
• Learn CI/CD pipelines and perform deployment activities
• Ensure the highest quality software is developed, delivered and maintained
• Work collaboratively in an Agile Delivery Team understanding the nature of the work we do and determining how to break down complex work items into small deliverable units for delivering business value
• Work with Product Owners to understand application and system functionality and behaviors
• Estimate effort involved in developing solutions to help refine user stories

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Three years or more of hands-on experience in application software development preferably developing APIs, Batch Jobs and Backend Capabilities for Web applications
• Three plus years’ experience developing unit testing and regression testing development
• Two plus years API development experience using microservices design patterns
• Technical competency in an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language such as Java, J2EE and JavaScript
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in algorithmic thinking and design, data structures
• Strong conceptual knowledge on database design and data modeling
• Strong understanding of Spring framework and Spring ecosystem
• Strong understanding of Git, GitHub and code management
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and frameworks such as Scrum
• Self-starter who can grasp difficult concepts quickly
• Strong programming, debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Team player with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Positive attitude, enthusiasm, professionalism and strong work ethic with high level of integrity

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Coursework and/or experience in JavaScript frameworks like Angular JS
• Coursework and/or experience developing Junit tests
• Experience or familiarity with Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
• You are driven by innovation, understanding new tools and technologies and have a commitment to lifelong learning
• Our view of “think out of the box” doesn’t mean anything to you because for you, there is no box

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