Senior Software Engineer, Low-Latency Trading Platforms

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid sabbatical after 5 years

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Southlake, TX to join the Order Execution & Management team. You will design and build scalable distributed systems and low-latency trading solutions, working across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to deliver high-performance, reliable software on site in Texas.

The role requires deep expertise in modern software engineering, automation tooling, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve developer productivity and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience in application development.
• Strong expertise building high-performance distributed systems and services.
• Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalents.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and modern delivery practices (CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, scalable software solutions.
• Lead complex automation programs and engineering improvements across platforms.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to deliver reliable, high-performance systems.
• Ensure low-latency, high-throughput platforms with a focus on performance and reliability.

Skills

C# .NET / .NET Core

Distributed systems

Low-latency trading

Problem solving

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Southlake, TX to join the Order Execution & Management team. You will design and build scalable distributed systems and low-latency trading solutions, working across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to deliver high-performance, reliable software on site in Texas.

The role requires deep expertise in modern software engineering, automation tooling, and AI-assisted capabilities to improve developer productivity and