Mid-Level Java Developer (Spring Batch/Boot)

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.

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 a Sr 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.

This role requires highly motivated and focused developers curious to build new and innovative solutions for our clients.

• Design, develop, test, deploy, support, and drive the next generation / cloud ready applications for Advice enterprise solutions targeted for Schwab consultants and clients.
• Support applications and systems in a production environment.
• Review requirements and translate them into a documented technical design.
• Work with an Agile team to deliver solutions.
• Interact with individuals from across Schwab in different supporting organizations and business groups.
• Participate in ground up modernization projects to improve user experience and collaborate with the technical architects to develop modern technical architectures.
• Lead projects, participate in mentoring junior staff.
• Lead or participate in developing cutting edge proof of concepts to be adopted into enterprise tech stack.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to research on innovative concepts in the Fin Tech space.
• Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies leveraging tools like Jenkins / Bamboo with a DevOps philosophy.
• Perform level three production support activities if the level one and level two teams are not able to resolve production issues.
• Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners.
• Search out and evangelize new and emerging technologies including open-source tools.
• Influence and implement improvements and efficiencies in the technical aspects of the development process.
• Ensure the highest quality software is developed, delivered, and maintained.
• Be a key leader in the agile process fostering collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency.
• Be a mentor and positive role model to junior members of the team.

What you have

Required :

• Bachelor’s or a master’s degree in computer science or related field or related practical experience
• 4+ years’ experience in developing Microservices and spring boot applications
• 4+ years demonstrated real world experience in object-oriented languages such as Java
• 4+ year experience developing capability APIs
• 2+ years’ experience working on data modeling, designing DB schemas for both SQL and NoSQL databases
• 4+ years demonstrated real world experience in software engineering principles, such as software design patterns
• 4+ years demonstrated real world experience in database principles, such as SQL, Oracle, MongoDB
• 4+ years’ experience developing event driven applications using technologies like Rabbit MQ and Kafka
• 2+ years’ experience mitigating security vulnerabilities and working with tools such has Veracode or Blackduck etc.
• 2+ years’ experience building alerting and monitoring dashboards using Splunk or equivalent application
• 2+ years’ experience supporting applications deployed in Production
• 2+ years’ experience working with Github, and CI / CD technologies like Bamboo
• Demonstrated experience developing event driven / asynchronous applications on the cloud platforms
• Ability to review requirements, translate these requirements into a design, implement and fully test this design; testing experience should include all aspects of testing (unit, functional, integration, end-to-end)
• Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate.
• 1+ years' experience building 12 factor applications.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Must be a critical thinker and solutions oriented.
• Must possess strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and to effectively interact and collaborate with all types of stakeholders, both technical and business, peers, and leaders
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

Preferred :

• 5+ years’ experience developing applications for the financial industry.
• 2+ years developing ETL workflows using IICS platform.
• Understanding of BDD and TDD styles
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers and building high performing teams.
• Experience building designs and reviewing them with architects.
• Curiosity to understand and leverage new tools and technologies.
• Experience in presenting to senior leadership.
• Google Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry platforms certifications preferred.
• experience migrating applications from legacy platforms to cloud ready architecture.
• Must be able to quickly grasp concepts and learn new technologies.

Why work for us?

Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams.

Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.

Benefits : A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home today and in the future.