Sr. Java Performance Engineer- thinkorswim (remote available)

Your Opportunity

Charles Schwab & Co.'s Java Performance Engineering role will advance the industry leading thinkorswim mobile trading platform's performance, scaling, and resiliency efforts. You would be responsible for developing an understanding our advanced streaming technologies/patterns to create innovative solutions for us to operate at a larger scale. An understanding of automation, delivery pipelines, and the software development lifecycle will be important to your success.

In addition, understanding the theory behind performance testing and key performance metrics will also be critical. Your work would involve working across the full stack – native client-side performance as well the Mobile Gateway system that backs our native client applications – and collaborate with the Performance QA team to manage the environments and tooling. You will also interact closely with our product partners, support teams, and other technical leaders.

Remote work options available.

What you are good at

• Monitor and support production systems that support the TOS Mobile product
• Learn/understand production performance behavior and develop scenarios to simulate the behavior in performance test runs
• Work with the Performance QA team on test runs to stress the capabilities of the system and identify bottlenecks
• Develop an understanding of mobile context and architecture to identify unique solutions to provide the best client experience in a scalable way
• Identify and collect key performance metrics for the system
• Understand the role of hardware in both production and performance environments and help manage those environments
• Address both client and server-side performance
• Provide solutions for production side monitoring
• Establish a performance & scalability roadmap, execute & communicate updates to stakeholders

What you have

• Java programming experience (at least 5 years)
• Linux background with experience in shell scripting
• DevOps and build automation experience
• Experience with troubleshooting/diagnosing JVM issues (e.g. thread dumps, garbage collection and memory management)
• SQL experience and knowledge on querying relational database
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem solving/decision making skills
• Must be very detail oriented
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team setting as well as independently with minimal error and guidance
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively across teams and departments
• Ability to draft a plan, socialize for feedback/new input, establish a roadmap & execute providing updates to stakeholders on an established cadence

Preferred:

• Understanding of performance best practices, performance key metrics, and statistics
• Familiarity with distributed systems and networking
• Experience developing on multi-threaded, messaging, and transactional systems

Colorado Compensation ​Target Total Compensation - $105,300 - $210,500 per year​Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience -- talk with your recruiter to learn more

Salary : $105,300 - $210,500