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.
At Charles Schwab & Co., we are on a mission to be the most trusted name in financial services and transform lives and investing through client-centric and innovative investing solutions. As a thinkorswim Sr. Specialist, you provide development and maintenance of Schwab's flagship thinkorswim® Desktop trading platform. We work in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. Developers perform complex software design tasks and technical analysis on a highly performant, multi-threaded and resilient system, where high performance is key. Specifically, this role will act as a subject matter expert on back-end core services, charting and working with transactional market data.
Performs product design & troubleshooting exercises of extremely high complexity which require extensive research and analysisLeads system design and specification development, program logic and flow-charting, testing, debugging, and documentation
Will be responsible for making complex design choices to be used by the development teams
Can work complex programming tasks, providing review of various development tasks and documentation
Provides analysis of problems and recommend solutions
A contributor in client/technology interactions in the development of technology solutions
Will interface with Enterprise Architecture & Infrastructure teams on strategic designs and initiatives
Participates in the troubleshooting of complex problems in development and production environments, ensuring timely resolution of issues
What you have
To ensure that we fulfill our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
5+ Years of Java, J2EE (both client and server side)
5+ Years Experience with OOA/OOD, distributed systems/software, real time processing, relational database systems, messaging systemspreferred
Experience with compilers or DSLs preferred
Solid grasp of socket-based networking
Experience with concurrency & multi-threading preferred
Experience with scaling, Java Garbage Collection, and performance tuning preferred
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns (GoF)
Experience with agile, test-driven development
Experience with rich UI frameworks like Angular JS, jQuery, HTML 5, Swing, Java FX or similar frameworks/APIs
Experience with application development frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, JSF or similar frameworks
Experience with Unix/Linux, Windows
Experience with build, deploy and test automation tools like Ant, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, TeamCity, Junit, TestNG, JaCoCo or similar tools
Demonstrated experience working with core business logic within applications
Experience in developing APIs and Frameworks
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
3 years of experience supporting thinkorswim required
Expertise in Distributed caching and Market Data
# of Years Required:
- 5+ Years of Core Java (both client and server side)
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar degree
What's in it for you
At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. 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's in it for you:
At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. 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
Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at [email protected] or call 800-275-1281.
