Senior Java Engineer

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).

The Client Data Technology organization is comprised of teams that support Schwab business goals through the delivery of technology solutions that focus on providing enhancements and functionalities that are needed to support our corporate customers and accounts. We are seeking for a dynamic and motivated, experienced Mainframe developer to advance our platform offerings and driving innovation.

The Senior Java Engineer will work with technical and business partners to design and maintain optimal programming and environment solutions. Job activities will involve researching and documenting production environments, architecture, developing solutions and supporting the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements, architecting/developing a solution, and driving strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders. Successful leaders at Charles Schwab communicate well with teams and leaders of the organization, have active listening skills, ask questions, and provide good development feedback.  Our ideal candidate is a servant leader who can lead multiple parallel initiatives – big and small – with attention to detail, manages outcomes, and has experience managing resources across multiple locations including offshore.

In this role the primary responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Work with technical and business experts to create and support optimal production and test environment solutions
• Research and development of (functional and technical specifications documents) production and test environments, architecture/design/develop solutions
• Develop plans for proof of concept and validation of technology/solutions
• Develop and support the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements
• Participate in strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders
• Identify gaps in processes and services across environments
• Review programming and environment changes and raise awareness for potential impacts
• Effective and efficient utilization of programming tools
• Architect and develop effective solutions that are in line with the organization's vision
• Actively participate in product design and development sessions
• Provide direction to less experienced Programmer/Analysts
• Identify gaps in processes and services across production and test environments
• Develop architectural diagrams/documents, develop software codes and automated test scripts
• Write efficient, easy to follow technical documentation
• Act as liaison between technical and non-technical counterparts

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrates practical familiarity with GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Code within IDE/CLI-style workflows.

• Working knowledge of agentic workflows, spec-driven development (translating low-level design artifacts such as class structures, API contracts, and data models into structured specs that guide AI-assisted implementation), and custom instructions and prompt engineering, with the ability to establish team-level practices for effective AI-assisted development.

• Uses AI assistance for common dev tasks (code suggestions, test generation, review support, automation scripts, troubleshooting) with clear ownership for correctness and quality.

• 8+ years of experience with the following: Java, Spring framework, cloud development, and Web Services (REST and SOAP) supporting high volume transactions in a Highly Available environment

• 4-6 years of experience in Distributed Databases and NoSQL databases; PostgresSQL (preferred), MongoDB, Yugabyte.

• 4+ year experience working on real-time data and streaming applications

• 4+ years of experience with continuous build process using Bamboo, Bitbucket/Git, or similar tools

• 3+ years of experience with GCP and /or AWS / Azure

• 3+ years of experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, message queues, etc.)

• 2+ years of experience in Cloud deployment in a CI/CD delivery model.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience of integrating mainframe systems with distributed systems and modernizing mainframe workflows is a must.

• Proven experience in designing and implement end‑to‑end workflows spanning COBOL batch/online (CICS), DB2, VSAM, and Java/Spring Boot microservices and Spring Batch.

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