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Schwab
Austin, Texas, United States
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17 hours ago
Schwab
Austin, Texas, United States
(on-site)
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Full-Time
Specialist, Java Engineer
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Specialist, Java Engineer
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Description
Your OpportunityWe are seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms . This role focuses on Java-based API development , cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent) , modern access management protocols , and AI-assisted software development .
You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs , operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment.
What you have
Key Responsibilities
Core Engineering
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs.
- Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms .
- Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows .
- Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability.
Scale, Performance & Reliability
- Build and operate highly resilient systems with:
- API latency SLA < 50ms
- Throughput > 5,000 TPS
- Availability ≥ 99.9%
- Error budget < 0.1%
- Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery .
- Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting .
- Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement .
Cloud & Deployment
- Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
- Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
- Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
AI-Enabled Development
- Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to:
- Accelerate feature development
- Improve code quality and test coverage
- Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting
- Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows.
Collaboration
- Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making .
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services.
- 2+ years Hands-on API development experience , including RESTful services and API security.
- Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms .
- 2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols :
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SAML
- Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency.
- Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting.
Requisition #: 2026-120967
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2026-120967
Job ID: 83186283

Schwab
United States
Schwab is a leader in financial services, helping millions of people make the most of their money. Most Schwab careers are based in one of our two main operating segments, Investor Services or Institutional Services. But across the entire Schwab organization, more than 12,000 employees share a passion for fulfilling our corporate purpose: to help everyone be financially fit.
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