Senior Software Engineer, Trading Platforms: Low-Latency

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Vacation, volunteering

Sabbatical after 5 years

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable distributed systems powering order execution, management, and low-latency trading solutions. This role emphasizes modern automation, AI-assisted tooling, and collaboration across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to improve reliability and performance.

You will contribute to high-throughput platforms, design microservices, and apply cloud-native practices, with an emphasis on performance,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology related experience in application development using C# .NET / .NET Core.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with messaging and event-driven architecture using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies such as GCP, AWS, Azure, PCF, or Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with automated testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, application architecture, infrastructure, and network design principles.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, Aerospike, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled engineering tools, intelligent automation, or modern developer productivity capabilities.

Skills

Self-driven

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Automation tooling

AI tooling

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

C# .NET / .NET Core

Kafka

RabbitMQ

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

PCF

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Charles Schwab in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable distributed systems powering order execution, management, and low-latency trading solutions. This role emphasizes modern automation, AI-assisted tooling, and collaboration across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to improve reliability and performance.

You will contribute to high-throughput platforms, design microservices, and apply cloud-native practices, with an emphasis on performance,