Lead Software Development Engineer
Your Opportunity
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.
What you are good at
- Leading the development team to deliver capabilities from inception to production.
- Leading daily design activities, promoting Agile practices, and coordinating with key collaborators to meet project deadlines and budget.
- Estimating capability costs and collaborating with Technology and Product Leadership for efficient task prioritization and sequencing
- Partnering with Schwab domain and enterprise architects to build scalable solutions.
- Influencing external vendor partners to meet Schwab standards and ensure platform health.
- Ensuring quality through automated testing, effective alerting, and proactive monitoring of solutions
- Driving development and release process improvements through best practices and standards
- Proactively identifying risks, establishing mitigation plans, and maintaining documentation and code quality standards
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with extensive experience in succinctly synthesizing data and developing recommendations in strong business stories with PowerPoint, and effectively presenting to executive audiences.
- Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to run multiple projects that vary in scope and complexity simultaneously, with a high sense of urgency.
- Excellent understanding of and desire to shape Architecture and Development Standards.
- Providing regular mentorship and technology support to the team
What you have
To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced technical skills:
- Bachelors’ degree in Computer Engineering OR related degree and/or practical experience
- Advanced .Net web and service development skills, typically built through 10+ years of applicable experience developing in .Net/C# and Java
- Experience with frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core
- Experience in working/implementing automation/BDD as part of the development
- Professional experience developing responsive designs and single page applications
- Experience tuning and maximizing performance for high volume pages
- Experience participating as a member of a scrum team in an agile environment
- Ability to troubleshoot environmental issues
- Experience with distributed multi-tier applications, WMI, NoSQL databases, MongoDB and/or SQL is preferred
- Experience with cloud technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Advanced people skills:
- Ability to conceptualize the best tactical approach for a team to deliver a project
- Demonstrated ability and interest in coaching and mentoring other engineers
- Ability to lead application and platform architecture design sessions
- Ability to effectively communicate complex architecture designs to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Effective relationship builder: ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience coding in Angular, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, backbone (advanced capabilities required for front end focused roles)
- Experience developing/managing REST and SOAP-based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment
- Knowledge of Web Content Management Systems
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
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
What you are good at
What you have
To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced technical skills:
- Bachelors’ degree in Computer Engineering OR related degree and/or practical experience
- Advanced .Net web and service development skills, typically built through 10+ years of applicable experience developing in .Net/C# and Java
- Experience with frameworks such as .NET, .NET Core
- Experience in working/implementing automation/BDD as part of the development
- Professional experience developing responsive designs and single page applications
- Experience tuning and maximizing performance for high volume pages
- Experience participating as a member of a scrum team in an agile environment
- Ability to troubleshoot environmental issues
- Experience with distributed multi-tier applications, WMI, NoSQL databases, MongoDB and/or SQL is preferred
- Experience with cloud technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Advanced people skills:
- Ability to conceptualize the best tactical approach for a team to deliver a project
- Demonstrated ability and interest in coaching and mentoring other engineers
- Ability to lead application and platform architecture design sessions
- Ability to effectively communicate complex architecture designs to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Effective relationship builder: ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience coding in Angular, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, backbone (advanced capabilities required for front end focused roles)
- Experience developing/managing REST and SOAP-based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment
- Knowledge of Web Content Management Systems
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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