Java Developer

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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. Charles Schwab Investment Management Technology provides application strategy, development and support for the Investment Management teams located in Austin, TX, Southlake, TX, San Francisco, CA, Denver, CO and Chicago, IL. Applications support the investment life cycle to include front office functions such as Equity and Fixed Income Trading, Portfolio Management, Investment Risk and Trade Compliance.

We are looking for a developer with demonstrated ability to develop/test applications within the financial space in a data‑centric environment. This is a mid‑senior level individual contributor position aimed at delivering development to the Investment Advisory team.

• As an engineer and a full‑stack developer (Data‑Services‑UI), you solve problems through building a robust, stable, secure application development. You’re curious and hungry to learn new things and look to make a long‑lasting impact on the project.
• You have developed features and unit‑tested complex systems in the past. You are strong in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Struts, and know how to create your own REST services (in any language) and are familiar with parsing JSON and XML.
• You worked in an Agile environment in the past. Iterative feature development and working as part of a distributed engineering team doesn’t scare you.
• You contribute to open‑source projects. If you have Git Hub contributions – we’d love to check them out.
• You’re a lifelong learner. You’re able to grasp difficult concepts and complex designs and stay on top of new and emerging technologies.

• 7+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as software developer/architect using JAVA programming language (Java, JSP, Struts, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, EJB, FjTask, Redis, Oracle, Maven, Git Hub, Jenkins).
• Good understanding of investment/trading lifecycle and familiarity with compliance use cases and data requirements to support the lifecycle.
• Understanding of security tools and its behaviors (SAST, DAST, SCA like Veracode, Black Duck, White Hat, Qualys). Intermediate to advanced understanding of common CVEs and potential remediations. Understanding of commonly used security libraries (preferably Java).
• Experience with Spring/Struts frameworks and ability to collaborate and provide technical inputs.
• Practical knowledge and use of design patterns (Strategy, Factory, Singleton, etc.).
• Experience using ‘git’ as source control system (cherry‑pick, merge conflict resolution should be second nature).
• Experience working in CI/CD environment. (Bamboo) Ability to create, modify and execute jobs from scratch using ‘git’ as source.
• Experience in Oracle, DB2, Mongo, Redis database concepts.
• Comfort with the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr).

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or similar area of study.
• Financial Services experience is a strong plus.
• Tech stack – Java, JSP, Struts, Spring, EJB, FjTask, Redis, Oracle, Maven, Git Hub, Jenkins.
• Behavioral:
  Proactiveness, ability to collaborate across teams, willingness to take on challenging unknown efforts, ability to deliver within SLA, hands‑on developer & servant leadership.

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

• 401(k) with company match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and a 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.

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