Senior Full Stack Java Engineer – Data Streaming

Charles Schwab Corporation; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation in Southlake, TX is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, test, and operate scalable Java/Spring Boot applications and data pipelines on cloud-native platforms.

You will own solutions from design to production, collaborating across engineering, platform, QA, and business teams to improve system throughput, latency, and reliability while applying best practices in testing, observability, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering with Java and Spring/Spring Boot.
• Experience UI components with Angular; React is a plus.
• 3+ years cloud engineering deploying production apps.
• Designing REST APIs, microservices, distributed apps.
• Batch-processing or data-ingestion with Spring Batch or equivalent.
• Streaming solutions with Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, RabbitMQ.
• Cloud native services (compute, storage, network).
• Strong SQL and relational DB; performance tuning.
• Automated testing, observability, resiliency, production-readiness.
• Linux, shell scripting, source control, CI/CD tools.
• Problem solving and ownership diagnosing complex issues.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Own solution design through production; improve throughput, latency, scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, QA, production support, and business teams.
• Translate complex needs into maintainable data and integration patterns.
• Communicate technical choices and trade-offs clearly.

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

Angular

Cloud engineering

REST APIs

Microservices

Kafka

SQL

Linux

CI/CD

Testing & observability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

Informatica

Job description

Your Opportunity

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).

Based in Southlake, Texas, you’ll join the Data Exchange team and help build resilient enterprise solutions that support the reliable, timely movement of operational data across the firm. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll design, develop, test, and operate scalable applications, APIs, microservices, streaming pipelines, and batch-processing solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies.

You’ll take ownership from solution design through production, applying problem-solving and sound technical decision-making to improve system throughput, latency, scalability, and reliability. Working across engineering, platform, quality assurance, production support, and business teams, you’ll translate complex needs into maintainable solutions, define effective data and integration patterns, and clearly communicate technical choices and trade-offs. Your curiosity, adaptability, and commitment to continuous learning will help simplify complex problems and advance modern engineering practices.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including strong Java development skills and experience, and Spring or Spring Boot
• Experience developing user-interface components with Angular. React experience will be considered as well.
• 3+ years of public-cloud engineering experience building and deploying production applications and services
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications
• Experience building production-grade batch-processing or data-ingestion solutions using Spring Batch or comparable frameworks
• Experience developing event-driven or streaming solutions with Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, or comparable technologies
• Experience with cloud native services such as Cloud compute, storage and network services.
• Strong SQL and relational database skills, including troubleshooting and performance-tuning complex queries and data-processing workloads
• Ability to apply automated testing, observability, resiliency, code-quality, and production-readiness practices throughout the software development lifecycle
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting, source control, and CI/CD tools
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ownership in diagnosing complex application, infrastructure, database, and integration issues
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to varied audience
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related degree, OR related practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing or operating high-volume operational data stores, enterprise data exchanges, integration platforms, or similar data platforms
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lifecycle management, or performance optimization
• Knowledge of data warehousing and enterprise data architecture
• Experience with Informatica or comparable enterprise data-integration platforms
• Experience applying monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing, capacity-planning, and performance-analysis practices
• Experience providing technical leadership, reviewing designs and code, sharing knowledge, or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on

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