Lead Software Engineer – Middleware & Integration
Charles Schwab2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Service Registry, Enterprise Gateways, and enterprise libraries supporting service-to-service communication.
- Lead enterprise-scale API gateway and ingress/egress traffic-management initiatives.
- Provide architecture leadership across concurrent cross-organizational programs involving cloud modernization, resiliency, security, and AI priorities.
- Migrate legacy Enterprise Gateway workloads to modern containerized and cloud-native infrastructure, including traffic migration and capacity planning.
- Evolve enterprise libraries used by thousands of applications while maintaining backward compatibility, security, and ease of adoption.
- Coordinate delivery across service-integration, infrastructure, security, and application teams to manage dependencies and milestones.
- Contribute to architecture governance for integration patterns, service discovery, and inter-service messaging.
- Drive automated testing, observability, reliability, security, and production readiness while identifying and mitigating systemic risks.
- Implement cryptographic and service-to-service trust-model security improvements, including remediation of deprecated standards and protocols.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and help advance AI-DLC practices, including AI agents and skills for engineering and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with globally distributed and offshore engineering teams, including teams in India.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, technology, engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership.
- 5+ years designing, building, and operating distributed service-integration platforms such as service registries, service buses, messaging frameworks, or enterprise shared libraries.
- Deep expertise in service-to-service communication, service discovery, inter-process messaging, and high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Java or C#/.NET and enterprise library design, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Hands-on experience modernizing legacy platforms onto cloud-native and containerized infrastructure such as Kubernetes or equivalent.
- Experience with cryptographic standards, certificate and key management, and deprecated protocol remediation including SHA-1 and TLS.
- Ability to lead architecture and execution across concurrent cross-organizational programs with complex dependencies.
- Experience with automated testing, observability, reliability, production readiness, and systemic risk mitigation.
- Experience using GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools, including prompt engineering and workflow integration.
- Experience designing and building AI agents and skills, such as Copilot extensions, custom skills, MCP servers, or equivalent agent frameworks.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams and collaborating across time zones and cultures.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI-DLC, agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, IBM DataPower Gateway, large-scale messaging or ESB platforms, enterprise traffic-management patterns, architecture standards, reference patterns, or open-source distributed-systems projects.
- Preferred: experience operating and modernizing integration platforms in regulated financial services environments.
Benefits
- The role is expected to be performed onsite in the specified location(s), reflecting Schwab’s emphasis on in-office collaboration.
- The position offers high-impact work shaping foundational platforms supporting Schwab’s digital ecosystem at enterprise scale.
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab is a different kind of investment services firm – one that strives to disrupt the status quo of the traditional Wall Street approach on behalf of our clients. We believe today, as we did on Day 1, that when you find ways to improve the investing experience for your clients, then business results will follow. Follow our company culture at #SchwabLife and see how we give back at #Schwab4Good. Support hours: 7 a.m.–7 p.m. CT or 24/7 at schwab.com/contact-us. Social Media Disclosures: https://www.aboutschwab.com/social-media (#0424-TM8W)