JAVA Software Engineer

Pay range: USD $130,000.00 - $150,100.00 / Year

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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(s).

Workplace Services Engineering (WSE) is an organization within Schwab Technology Services that is embarking on a major transformation. We support Workplace Services, and we're shaping the future of how people experience financial well-being at work. We partner with leading employers to deliver innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures. This is a fast-growing, high-impact business where scale meets purpose-where your work directly influences how people plan, save, invest, and succeed.

As a key growth engine for the firm, we're investing more than ever to expand our capabilities, modernize platforms, and elevate the experiences we deliver to employers and their employees. Our teams work at the intersection of technology, service, and financial expertise-supporting workplace clients with solutions that scale, adapt, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Here, your ideas help shape what's next for workplace financial services. If you're energized by solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and making a real difference in the workplace services industry, you'll find your place here.

This position is a senior role for a candidate who has the capabilities to create user information solutions by developing, implementing, and maintaining Java-based components and interfaces. The candidate writes well-designed, testable, efficient code and ensures designs are in compliance with specifications. The role includes preparing and releasing software components. It involves supporting continuous improvements by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review. In addition, the candidate will support users by developing detailed documentation and assistance tools. The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience in designing and developing Java enterprise applications and extensive experience developing RESTful services. Object-Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns is required. Experience with Spring/Spring Boot is required. Experience with test-driven development or behavior-driven development is a bonus.

• Actively contribute as a member of a Scrum team, writing code in Java.
• Follow all guidelines for best development practices.
• Participate in all agile ceremonies and appropriately update all tickets for clear tracking.
• Practice and enforce good engineering practices and compliance with company engineering standards.

• 7+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Software Development, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of work experience in a software development role where the candidate was actively writing and reviewing Java code.
• 7+ years of experience with relational databases; ideally Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• 7+ years of experience writing unit and integration tests. Must be familiar with at least one testing framework (JUnit, Mockito preferred).
• 7+ years of experience using Spring/Spring Boot.
• 7+ years of experience developing RESTful services.
• 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, CircleCI, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience with any cloud platform (PCF, GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and profiling Java applications.
• Experience with Atlassian tool suites: Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem resolution skills.
• Understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.
• Strong ability to design for functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, performance, and privacy.

• Experience converting SOAP services to RESTful services.
• Experience with Spring Batch and/or batch processing.

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 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