Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you are 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 are looking for an experienced Senior Java full stack developer with a strong track record on development, design and maintaining Cloud based Java applications for both real-time and high-volume batch applications to join our Client Reporting Technology group.  The Client Reporting Technology (CRT) group champions innovative and scalable technology solutions to deliver a superior client communication experience, through multiple delivery channels.  Some of CRT’s software products include brokerage and bank statement applications, letters, tax documents, trade confirmations, operational and marketing communications, and regulatory forms. 

In this position, you will lead scrum teams to develop and enhance Customer Communications Management platforms based on Java microservices. Your responsibilities will include discussing requirements with Product Teams, helping shape the product vision with internal and external stakeholders, implementing new add-on products and features, ensuring CRT’s architectural and design governance is applied, coordinating upstream and downstream system integrations, and improving CRT’s overall development and deployment pipeline for CRT product suite.

What you will do:

• Partner with Product/Platform Teams, Vendors, and Designers to deliver high quality software.
• Influence the features and direction of the product with your own ideas.
• Facilitate integration with existing and/or new data services.
• Participate in an agile software development environment.
• Participate in design, code, and technical design reviews.
• Participate in and ferry solutions through local and/or other governance reviews.
• Integrate performance monitoring to empower data-driven decisions.
• Investigate and resolve application issues reported by our end users and business partners.
• Identify ways to improve our technology, process & performance.
• Solve production problems and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation (if needed) and related installs.
• Provide recommendations and improvements to prevent production incidents from re-occurring.
• Participate in key incident reviews / production issues calls to investigate and restore key application issues, outages or major impacts from related domains and perform post-mortem / root cause analysis as needed.
• Proactively monitor and continually seek for on-going improvements for our applications.
• Create dashboard to publish alerts or proactively identify issues raised after key releases to keep all applications and batch processes performing at its best.
• Automate routine tasks with your own scripts and open-source tools.
• Write documentation and collaborate with technical peers.  Update and/or author new documents to share with the others in the Ops team.
• Mentor junior developers in design patterns, best practices, and software development strategy.

What you have

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Master of Computer Science
• 7 years overall IT experience
• 7 years demonstrated real world experience in enterprise web application development.
• 7 years demonstrated real world experience in Java on Springboot framework.
• 7 years demonstrated real world experience in software engineering principles, practices, and software design patterns in an Enterprise level environment.
• Demonstrated real world experience in Mongo DB.
• 7 years demonstrated real world experience in database principles, such as SQL, Oracle, or MongoDB
• Experience in RESTful service design and implementation.
• Experience producing technical design documentation and reviewing with architects.
• Experience using PaaS solutions and concepts (PCF and/or GCP preferred)
• Experience leveraging Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and DevOps principles.
• Working knowledge and understanding of security tools like Veracode and AppScan
• Expertise in the software development lifecycle with proven examples of process improvement
• Working knowledge of Agile / Scrum development methodology
• Experience with Atlassian suite of products to include JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket & Bamboo
• Demonstrated yearning to leverage technology to build products that "wow" users
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated ability to solve problems.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience mentoring and guiding developers.
• Strong ability to partner with product managers, engineers, and architects across the organization through collaborative problem solving.
• Experience with modern 24x7 production environments.
• Has experienced in using ITIL framework best practices for Incident, Problem and Change management.
• Able to speak with confidence and under pressure during technical troubleshooting calls to resolve and restore production issues; able to articulate key topics to different audience levels.
• Understands Operational needs and key processes to ensure application availability and stability continue to improve.

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