What are the responsibilities and job description for the Java Developer position at Charles Schwab?
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.
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).
Stock Plan Services focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients. We have multiple applications that support this effort, and our mission is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites to combine these segregated applications into a holistic user experience. While executing this goal we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. Fueled by a diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world.
Position Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
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).
Stock Plan Services focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients. We have multiple applications that support this effort, and our mission is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites to combine these segregated applications into a holistic user experience. While executing this goal we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. Fueled by a diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world.
Position Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development, and implementation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems
- Take a Lead role coaching a scrum team in JAVA and Cloud Development platforms that includes frontend and backend technologies like Spring-boot, PCF and more
- Ensure deliverable meets the standards with respect to code quality, unit test cases, and best coding practices for all code implementations
- Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Lead development on Proof-of-Concept projects to help create reusable patterns for development
- Participate in various agile ceremonies and appropriately lead technology solutioning across a large team space
- Prepare high level design, system design document, architecture document or similar documentation and securing approvals from architect team
- Ability to lead and guide the team as well as coordinate with the offshore development team and tester
- Be a security champion for the team by evaluating, guiding, and resolving vulnerability free code, eliminating security gaps, and ensuring reusability, flexibility, and performance
- Write unit test cases for all code implementations
- Creating Bamboo pipelines for CI/CD into PCF environments
- Follow all guidelines for best development practices
- Participate in all agile ceremonies and help leadership team
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree in computer science or related subject
- 7 years experience with developing Java, Spring-Boot, Spring Framework, Cloud based development, Rest and micro services and micro-UI development
- Experience coaching junior, staff level developers
- Strong expertise in system design from mid-scale to enterprise application design
- Strong ability to take proposed architecture and/or leadership goals and translate them into detailed technical design documents and lay out the solution roadmap for the engineering teams
- Experience in the full SDLC including delivery
- Strong ability to Design for functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, and performance
- 3 years experience with Atlassian tool suites Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence
- Experience using IDE and GIT repositories for code management
- Strong analytical, communication and problem resolution skills
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 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