Senior Software Engineer Job at Aquent (Dallas)

Senior Software Engineer

Aquent

Location:
United States , Dallas

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development. You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs, operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment.

Job Responsibility:

Lead Solution in the development and delivery of the organization’s software products to QA, UAT and Production
Manage day-to-day activities and promote Agile software development practices within the team
Collaborate with product owners and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA, and Technology Operations to ensure timely and budget-friendly software project delivery
Work with Scrum Master and product owner to provide development sizing and cost analysis estimates
Collaborate with the product owner and team members in story decomposition, feature design, and task prioritization
Utilize automated software testing tools and frameworks, including test-driven development, to meet software quality standards
Support Single Sign-On (SSO) integration efforts to connect systems both internally and externally to Schwab
Assist the release manager in assembling releases and improving the release process
Help resolve needs and roadblocks identified by team members with the Scrum Master
Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables to achieve product releases
Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans
Conduct periodic reviews and code quality improvement sessions with onshore and offshore developers, focusing on requirements specification and design methodologies
Prototype, validate, and create specific application solutions for business needs
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs
Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms
Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows
Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability
Build and operate highly resilient systems
Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery
Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting
Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement
Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment
Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags)
Actively use AI-assisted development tools
Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows
Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making

Requirements:

8+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services
8+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security
Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms
2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML
Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs
Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency
Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting
Proficiency in building server-side applications (API SME) using C# and .NET Technologies
Solution design and implementation experience for high availability, High throughput, high scalability Application
Good understanding of the latest System Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines
Experience in providing guidance and direction to junior team members
Minimum 8+ years of software development experience, with 5+ years of team leadership experience
Expertise in object-oriented analysis, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), design patterns, development, implementation, and maintenance
Must be self-motivated, creative, and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
BS or MS in computer science or related technical field
7+ years of hands-on application programming and/or test automation / framework experience in an Agile development environment
Hands-on software development experience in Java17
A minimum of 3 experience leading delivery and adoption of technical innovation across teams
familiarity with Agile/Lean development and testing practices, including Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Experience with MongoDB, Aerospike
Experience with Token Services, SAML, OAuth 2.0, PKCE and OIDC
Experience with Authentication such as Kerberos, cert based, Ping
Experience testing RESTful web using test automation frameworks
Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure in a challenging environment
Experience with source control and Agile Tools (Bitbucket, Jira, Zephyr, Bamboo, GIT)
Experience with Google Cloud
Experience working in CI/CD environment
Experience with troubleshooting Production issues through analysis of logs (Splunk), dashboards and metrics
Experience with financial services or brokerage industry

Nice to have:

Hands-on experience with SAML and OAuth solutions
Experience with online security for user authentication
SOAP experience
BS/BA/MS in Computer Science or equivalent discipline

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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