Senior Full Stack Java Engineer – Data Streaming

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sabbatical after 5 y

Paid parental leave and family‑benefit

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab in Southlake, TX seeks a senior software engineer to design, develop, test, and operate scalable Java applications, APIs, microservices, and streaming pipelines. You’ll own the full lifecycle from design to production, collaborating across teams to improve throughput, latency, and reliability.

The role requires 7+ years of hands-on experience with Java/Spring Boot, UI experience (Angular/React), and cloud engineering, plus strong data and integration pattern skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience creating UI components with Angular; React also considered.
• 3+ years of public-cloud engineering to deploy production apps.
• Designing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with batch processing or data ingestion using Spring Batch or equivalents.
• Experience with event-driven or streaming tech like Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or RabbitMQ.
• Strong SQL and relational DB skills; capable of tuning queries.
• Ability to apply automated testing, observability, resiliency, and production-readiness practices.
• Experience Linux, shell scripting, source control, and CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

• Own solution design through production and drive reliability improvements.
• Build and operate scalable applications, APIs, microservices, and pipelines.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform, QA, production, and business teams.
• Translate complex needs into maintainable data and integration patterns.
• Communicate trade-offs and technical decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Java development

Spring / Spring Boot

Angular/React experience

REST APIs design

Streaming and batch processing

Distributed systems

SQL & relational databases

CI/CD practices

Linux & shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Kinesis

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.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance