Charles Schwab

Your Opportunity

We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny. We are driven by our purpose to champion every client’s goals with passion and integrity. We respect and appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. We challenge conventions strategically to create value for our clients, our firm and the world. We live and bring to life the concept of ‘own your tomorrow’ every day. We champion our employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success. We hire optimistic, results-oriented, curious, innovative, and adaptable people with the desire to help our clients and one another succeed.

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).

As a company, we were established by Chuck over 40 years ago to champion Main Street over Wall Street, and to help Americans transform themselves from earners to owners. Through advocacy and innovation, we work to make investing more affordable, accessible and understandable for all. As we enter our fifth decade, we are looking for talented, innovative and driven people who believe they can help themselves, and our clients, create a better future.

Our Opportunity:

We are looking for an Application Engineer to join the Trading team that builds and runs high throughput, low latency trading applications. The role will be part of our Sprint based Agile teams playing a dual role supporting the existing Trading platform while building out cloud target architecture and efficiently modernize applications in fast-paced environment. You will design, build, and deploy Schwab’s next generation trading platform. We work hard and have fun in what you do!

What you’ll do:

• Actively participate in all agile related ceremonies
• Writing testable, scalable, and efficient code for business-critical components and leading code reviews
• Utilize SRE principles to design, implement scalable, reliable and resilient systems
• Partner with fellow agile team members in support of sprint delivery
• Partner with QA resources to design and implement automated functional and regression tests
• Work with technical directors to understand and implement their architectural vision
• Take on additional duties in support of operations and production support Trading
• Participate in Developer Driven Automated Testing
• A willingness to learn and grow is a must. Team player with strong collaborative qualities and a positive demeanor
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment across multiple time zones and locations
• This position requires good interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills

What you have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related work experience
• 2-4 or more years development experience and demonstrated proficiency in C# .NET / .NET core
• 1 or more years development experience with databasing technologies like SQL, Mongo and PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with front end technologies like Angular, React, Vue.JS, HTML, TypeScript and CSS is a Big Plus
• Strong knowledge and working experience with web services (REST)
• Knowledge in any cloud based technologies like GCP, AWS or PCF
• Demonstrated experience in writing applications that interact with Atlassian stack APIs
• Experience/knowledge with SCM (Atlassian tools Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo etc.) and DevOps tool suite is preferred
• Experience with test driven development preferred (Junit, EasyMock etc.,)
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum Experience adopting or managing continuous Integration and continuous delivery concepts and frameworks

"In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities"