Pay range:

USD $119,000.00 - $135,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

Wealth Advisory Services (WAS) develops and operates Schwab's most innovative products with a primary goal of delighting our clients while empowering them to meet their financial objectives. WAS and Digital Advice, leads delivery of several products, each with a common focus on personalizing the investment experience to the needs of our customers. We invite you to learn more by visiting our product descriptions Intelligent Portfolios, and Financial Planning.

The Digital Advice Technology team is looking for a software engineer to design/develop major enhancements to the Planning suite of products and create new products that positively impact our clients and those who serve our clients. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The ability to deliver innovative, secure, and reliable solutions is key to success in this role. Our Software Applications Engineers are driven to learn, grow, and continuously contribute to evolving the Schwab experience and technology.

What you are good at

We are looking for a versatile software application developer whose role will be distributed across all phases of the SLDC - from early inception, solution design, code, test automation, through to final solution implementation and support. Responsibility and activities include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze, design, develop, debug, configure and modify software systems and/or new products used in local, cloud, networked, mobile, or Internet-related technology. Code may be used in commercial and/or end-user applications.
• Leverage current and evolving technologies to design, code, test, log, debug, document, and analyze current and future applications, all with the goals of Maintainability, Security, Availability, and Scalability.
• Interact with users and/or stakeholders to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
• Lead cooperative efforts among members of project teams.
• Act as a mentor to junior staff members.

What you have

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field OR related practical experience
• 3+ years professional experience in software development
• 2+ years leveraging object-oriented languages such as C#, .NET Core
• 1+ year experience with front-end development ( Angular preferred)
• 1+ year experience working with test automation
• Ability to develop unit and acceptance tests, and effectively automate test execution
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to contribute to all phases of the SDLC
• Requirements review
• Design implementation
• All aspects of testing
• Production implementation and support
• Data analysis
• Hunger to learn and an intense technical curiosity
• Critical thinker and solutions-oriented
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Desire to learn new technologies
• Tenacity and persistence

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of creating cloud-native applications
• Experience developing with .NET Core
• Experience with BDD creation and related automation.

Cucumber & Ruby preferred:

• Experience with test automation as a part of Continuous Integration, enabling Continuous Delivery
• Experience with scrum methodology
• Experience tuning and maximizing performance of UI, API, and CI-related components
• Understanding of common design patterns and appropriate usage
• Ability and desire to contribute to application and platform architecture and design

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