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This is a unique opportunity to work on mission critical trading platforms that directly power the success of independent financial advisors and their clients at Charles Schwab, a firm known for combining stability with innovation. As a Staff Engineer on the Advisor Services Technology Web Trading team, you’ll tackle complex, high impact problems at scale while collaborating with talented engineers in a highly agile, team oriented environment. You’ll have the chance to influence architecture, performance, and product direction while working with modern full stack technologies in both cloud and distributed systems. If you’re passionate about building reliable, high performance financial technology that truly matters, this role offers both challenge and purpose.
Job Responsibility:
Design and develop scalable, high performance web trading applications by building and maintaining reliable front end and back-end solutions that meet business, security, and compliance requirements
Collaborate within agile scrum teams, working closely with engineers, product partners, and stakeholders to design, implement, test, and support new features and enhancements
Drive application quality and reliability by proactively identifying performance bottlenecks, defects, and technical debt, and leading efforts in refactoring, testing, automation, and performance tuning
Champion engineering best practices and standards, ensuring adherence to coding, security, resiliency, compliance, and documentation standards while continuously improving system functionality, usability, and scalability
Requirements:
2+ years of full stack application development experience
Bachelor's degree from 4-year accredited degree granting college or university is preferred, or equivalent experience
Proven experience developing and implementing applications, particularly web-enabled applications using: Front End Technologies/Concepts: Angular and/or AngularJS, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, ASP.NET web forms, MVC, JSON/XML, Sync/Async services
Back End Technologies/Concepts: C#, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET Web API, SOAP and RESTful API design
Database Technologies/Concepts: Relational (SQL/Oracle) and Document Based (No-SQL/MongoDB) Architectures
Environment: Distributed Monolithic and Cloud Based Microservices (Private Cloud/Pivotal Cloud Foundry is strongly differentiating)
Initial understanding in web application environments and development tools, event-driven application development, session state management, web configuration and deployment strategies, security, and performance tuning, and debugging methodologies
Comfortable with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) concepts, unit testing principles and implementations, API test automation techniques as well as automated deployment pipeline tools
Experience with Atlassian tool suite and VCS is strongly preferred: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub
Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
Effective time management. Must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively
Nice to have:
Trading domain knowledge is a plus
Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable front end and back-end code
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Collaborate with the team to design, develop, unit test, and support new features
Proactively identify product/system enhancements which may improve tool appeal, process flow, and overall functionality and performance
Lead development of maintenance and enhancement work items, including performance tuning, testing, refactoring, usability, and automation