Lead Java Software 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(s).
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by delivering reliable, secure, and innovative technology products that support investing, financial planning, and retirement services.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for mission-critical retirement technology platforms that support millions of client transactions and retirement accounts.
In this role, you will use Java, Technical Leadership, Systems Engineering, Microservices, Cloud Services Management, REST APIs, DevOps, and Developing Others to design scalable solutions, guide architecture decisions, modernize legacy platforms, strengthen operational stability, and mentor engineering teams. Your work will directly support Schwab’s ability to deliver secure, resilient, and high-quality technology solutions that help clients plan for and manage their financial futures.
What you have
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated enterprise application development experience using Java/J2EE and object-oriented engineering practices.
- Ability to design, build, modernize, and support scalable Java applications using Microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-ready architecture patterns.
- Demonstrated Technical Leadership through architecture guidance, design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical influence.
- Strong Systems Engineering experience designing secure, resilient, highly available solutions that support business-critical platforms.
- Strong Experience with Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Splunk and cloud-based platforms.
- Experience applying DevOps practices, CI/CD principles, production deployment discipline, and continuous improvement across the SDLC.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or equivalent relational database platforms.
- Ability to partner effectively with product, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into secure and maintainable technology solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial services, retirement services, brokerage, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience leading modernization initiatives, cloud migration, legacy platform transformation, or platform evolution efforts.
- Experience with Docker, Grafana, Google Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BDD, or TDD.
- Experience developing event-driven or asynchronous applications on cloud platforms.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture governance practices, technical design patterns, and review processes.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or modern software engineering practices to improve developer productivity and solution quality.
- Learning Opportunities
- In this role, you will continue developing deeper expertise in retirement technology platforms, enterprise architecture practices, cloud-ready modernization, production resiliency, and secure software delivery. You will also strengthen your ability to influence architecture decisions across teams, partner with enterprise stakeholders, and guide engineers through complex modernization and delivery efforts.
Skill Development Values
Schwab values continuous learning, technical excellence, collaboration, and growth. This role offers meaningful opportunities to expand your leadership influence, deepen your engineering craft, and contribute to platforms that support clients’ long-term financial goals. You will be part of a team that values integrity, service, innovation, accountability, and shared success.
"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
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated enterprise application development experience using Java/J2EE and object-oriented engineering practices.
- Ability to design, build, modernize, and support scalable Java applications using Microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-ready architecture patterns.
- Demonstrated Technical Leadership through architecture guidance, design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team technical influence.
- Strong Systems Engineering experience designing secure, resilient, highly available solutions that support business-critical platforms.
- Strong Experience with Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Splunk and cloud-based platforms.
- Experience applying DevOps practices, CI/CD principles, production deployment discipline, and continuous improvement across the SDLC.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or equivalent relational database platforms.
- Ability to partner effectively with product, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into secure and maintainable technology solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial services, retirement services, brokerage, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience leading modernization initiatives, cloud migration, legacy platform transformation, or platform evolution efforts.
- Experience with Docker, Grafana, Google Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BDD, or TDD.
- Experience developing event-driven or asynchronous applications on cloud platforms.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture governance practices, technical design patterns, and review processes.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or modern software engineering practices to improve developer productivity and solution quality.
- Learning Opportunities
- In this role, you will continue developing deeper expertise in retirement technology platforms, enterprise architecture practices, cloud-ready modernization, production resiliency, and secure software delivery. You will also strengthen your ability to influence architecture decisions across teams, partner with enterprise stakeholders, and guide engineers through complex modernization and delivery efforts.
Skill Development Values
Schwab values continuous learning, technical excellence, collaboration, and growth. This role offers meaningful opportunities to expand your leadership influence, deepen your engineering craft, and contribute to platforms that support clients’ long-term financial goals. You will be part of a team that values integrity, service, innovation, accountability, and shared success.
"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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