Staff - Software Applications Engineer - ReqCode 08265535

Organizational Purpose:

Charles Schwab's purpose is to help everyone become financially fit. Through advocacy and innovation, Schwab has worked to make investing more affordable, more accessible and more understandable for all. For more than three decades, The Charles Schwab Corporation has been an advocate for individual investors and the independent advisors who serve them. At Schwab, we respect the unique differences of our employees, our clients and the communities we serve – striving to create a consistent and rewarding employee experience. If you share our enthusiasm for helping others, building trusted relationships, possess high ethical standards, and have a desire to learn and grow, there's a place for you at Schwab! Organizational Overview:

The Shared Support Services organization at Schwab is comprised of centralized teams that support Schwab business goals through the delivery of technology, operations, projects, business continuity and offshore management. The focus is on maximizing operating leverage by integrating functions, increasing productivity and gaining efficiencies in order to better position Schwab to compete in the marketplace and to reinvest in areas that matter most to our clients. Messaging Engineering Technology Solutions (METS) is part of the Schwab Technology Services organization. METS leads the corporate direction for messaging and middleware and develops on and supports approximately 10 major shared platforms.

These platforms include the following capabilities:

* Asynchronous publish/subscribe

* Synchronous request/reply

* B-to-B secure transport

* Web service directory

* Corporate authentication

* Corporate authorization

* Shared Java services platform and development engineering

* Shared distributed database

* Shared corporate data caching

* .NET and Java middleware client development

Brief Description of Role:

Schwab Technology Services is looking for motivated and energetic software engineers to advance our Messaging and Middleware platforms.

As a member of the Middleware Engineering team you will be tasked with developing, improving, and supporting Schwab's core middleware platforms. You will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment with opportunities to participate and lead software engineering projects through the entire software development lifecycle. You will also have the opportunity to work on a number of infrastructure related projects charged with improving capacity, availability, and security.

In order to maintain and advance these platforms, you will need to master certain aspects of systems engineering, software engineering, and quality assurance.

Technical/Functional Qualifications:

* MS/BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.

* 2+ years of professional experience developing distributed, scalable enterprise-class applications using either JAVA or C#

* At least 2+ years experience using professional source code control systems (TFS preferred)

* At least 1+ years experience in planning, implementing, and certifying Production changes

* Demonstrated ability to work with Clients and Architects to understand business requirements and translate them into comprehensive technical designs

* Experience with web services (SOAP, RESTful), XML, JSON, and XSLT strongly preferred

* Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving Production issues via log and system analysis a plus

* Experience implementing and maintaining logging, monitoring, and reporting utilities preferred

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