Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Your Opportunity

The PC Core Technology (PCCT) Team represents a centralized domain responsible for managing holdings, investment performance, and automated re-balancing across the universe of investment portfolios within Schwab. The PCCT Development team is looking for a Technical Lead/Senior Staff Software Developer who will excel leading a scrum team in a dynamic fast-paced environment .   PCCT offers a wide range of technology opportunities for the best and brightest people to grow and demonstrate their skills as they develop high-performance financial applications.  The right candidate will have experience with Development best practices, like SOLID principles, and proven experience performing all Development related functions; including, but not limited to: following coding standards, unit test creation and code reviews.  The right candidate will enjoy being part of a highly interactive, Agile team.   PCCT offers a wide range of technology opportunities for the best and brightest people to grow and demonstrate their skills as they develop high-performance financial applications.

What you are good at

• Provide technical direction and support to the rest of your team.
• Facilitate communication of requirements, scoping and design decisions between team members, architects and product owners. Work closely with architects and business partners to define Agile stories for new capabilities.
• Participate in product roadmap discussion and long term planning for your team.
• Develop tools and practices that will increase the efficiency of your team.
• Lead design and implementation of new stories and bug fixes. Perform thorough design reviews and code reviews.
• Hands on coding, unit testing and production issue troubleshooting.
• Mentor junior staff in the team and help them reach their career goals.
• Main point of contact and subject matter expert on your product domain.

What you have

• 2 years’ experience working as a tech lead or any role in that capacity.
• 7 years’ experience developing commercial application on Windows platforms using C#/C and .NET.
• 3 years’ experience developing web services – preferably REST services. Very strong object oriented design skills with proven track record of well-engineered design.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Self-starter who can grasp difficult concepts and large architectures quickly and contribute at the architectural and coding levels.
• 3 years programming experience with NoSQL and/or SQL databases.
• Experience with unit testing and history of successful driving quality strategy.
• Experience and a desire to mentor peers and junior staff.
• Capability and strong desire to be a technical leader within a scrum environment.
• BS or higher in computer science or related technical field.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies is a plus.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tool stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo) is a plus.
• Experience with LINQ, Message Bus and Mongo DB is a plus.
• Prior Financial Services experience is a plus
• Familiarity with Micro-Services architecture and Cloud technology is a plus

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

Salary : $146,700 - $183,300