Senior Software Engineer, Trading Platforms
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$141k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions for trading platforms.
- Lead complex technical initiatives, automation programs, and engineering improvements across trading and financial technology platforms.
- Build and support high-performance distributed systems, event-driven services, and mission-critical applications.
- Improve reliability, performance, resiliency, scalability, operational excellence, and developer productivity.
- Collaborate across engineering, architecture, product, platform, and business teams.
- Create evaluation frameworks, validation strategies, and quality controls for complex software systems and intelligent workflows.
- Support high-volume, low-latency platforms and contribute to architecture, mentoring, and cross-functional technical leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of enterprise technology experience in application development using C# .NET/.NET Core.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software development expertise building high-performance distributed systems and services.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent messaging and event-driven technologies.
- Experience with cloud-based technologies including GCP, AWS, Azure, PCF, or Kubernetes platforms.
- Experience with automated testing, Test-Driven Development, 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 including SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, or Aerospike.
- Experience with AI-enabled engineering tools, intelligent automation, or developer productivity capabilities.
- Experience creating evaluation frameworks, validation strategies, and quality controls for complex software systems and intelligent workflows.
- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery frameworks.
- Financial services or trading technology experience is preferred, including electronic trading, order management, execution management, market connectivity, or regulatory reporting.
- Experience designing or supporting low-latency, high-throughput, highly available systems and establishing engineering metrics is preferred.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed on site in the specified location(s).
- The role offers learning opportunities in order execution, trading technology, market connectivity, agentic workflows, AI-assisted engineering, model evaluation, human-in-the-loop validation, responsible AI governance, observability, reliability, and technical leadership.
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#Google Cloud PlatformKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDB.NETPivotal Cloud FoundryRabbitMQRedis
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.