What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer Senior position at Charles Schwab Inc.?
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 a talented Full Stack Developer to join the Advisor Services Platform to build customer facing and backend applications. We focus on driving client-centricity, reducing time to market & increasing efficiency. Ideal candidate shares our passion for technology, innovation, excellence and enjoys fast-paced environment, thrives under ambiguity and embraces change passionately. We are moving towards a Test-Driven development and Continuous Integration environment using Bamboo and GIT. The candidate will work alongside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.
Responsibilities include:
- Working closely with Tech leads and business partners to define Agile stories for new capabilities
- Hands on coding, performing code reviews, unit testing and production issue solving
- Employing advanced expertise in software design and specifications to design effective processes to incorporate predictive or adaptive design techniques.
- Assisting in design and implementation of new stories and bug fixes
- Mentoring junior staff in the team and helping them reach their career goals
- Partnering with fellow developers, product owners, technical leads and architects
- Understanding, advocating and augmenting the platform principles, guidelines and standards
- Aligning with application development and ensuring standards and quality are met
- Staying abreast of user feedback by attending and reviewing UX Research sessions
- Developing with the user in mind and having a clear understanding of what KBI we are targeting with each ticket
What you have
Required Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science
- 7 years of full stack application development experience and experience mentoring/assisting junior team developers on team
- Proven experience developing and implementing applications, particularly web-enabled applications using:
- HTML, Javascript, CSS, angular, bootstrap, backbone
- .NET web and service development using C#
- Solid understanding in web application environments and development tools, session state management, web configuration and deployment strategies, security and performance tuning, and debugging methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- A passion for digital innovation and commitment to superb client experience
- Solid understanding in web application environments and development tools, session state management, web configuration and deployment strategies, security and performance tuning, and debugging methodologies.
- Comfortable with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) concepts, unit testing principles and implementations, API test automation techniques as well as automated deployment pipeline tools
- Solid understanding of resiliency and disaster recovery using Cloud native solutions
- Experience with Atlassian tool suite is strongly preferred: JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo
- Experience with GITHUB
- Exposure to Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development techniques
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective time management; must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively
- A passion for problem solving, the ability to quickly learn new concepts, and must be able to interact with all levels of technical and business teams
- A team player, self-motivated and able to work collaboratively across organizations and geographic locations
