Lead Software Engineer – Middleware & Integration

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At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investment and financial planning.

We believe in the importance of in‑office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without employer sponsorship.

Service Integration team in the Enterprise Middleware Organization owns several of the firm’s foundational platforms that enable reliable, secure service‑to‑service communication across the enterprise — including Service Registry, Gateways, and the Enterprise Libraries that thousands of Schwab applications depend on every day. The team is driving mission‑critical initiatives like API Gateway and Ingress/Egress patterns at Enterprise scale, and Security remediations — work that directly advances Schwab’s cloud, resiliency, security, and AI priorities.

This is a high‑impact opportunity to shape the core integration fabric that powers Schwab’s digital ecosystem at scale.

Charles Schwab is recruiting a driven, purposeful SME who shares our passion for technical leadership, architecture, and large‑scale cross‑org execution. This role partners across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to evolve mission‑critical platforms like Enterprise Gateways, and Service Registry in a fast‑moving, highly concurrent program landscape. Ideal candidates thrive in ambiguity, enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, and are energized by the chance to lead modernization efforts that move Schwab’s platform forward.

• Design, develop, and maintain core Service Integration platforms — Service Registry, Enterprise Gateways and Libraries — that underpin service‑to‑service communication across Schwab.
• Lead technical execution of mission critical initiatives including API gateway and ingresses/egress traffic management patterns at enterprise scale.
• Provide architecture leadership across concurrent, cross‑org programs, aligning work to cloud modernization, resiliency, security, and AI priorities.
• Drive migration of Legacy Enterprise Gateway workloads onto modern containerized and cloud‑native infrastructure, including egress and ingress traffic patterns.
• Evolve the Enterprise Libraries used by thousands of Schwab applications, ensuring backward compatibility, security posture, and ease of adoption.
• Coordinate execution across Service Integration, infrastructure, security, and consuming application teams to unblock dependencies and protect committed milestones.
• Contribute to architecture governance councils, providing expertise on integration patterns, service discovery, and inter‑service messaging.
• Drive engineering excellence and operational rigor, including automated testing, reliability, security, and production readiness; proactively identify architectural or systemic risks and lead mitigation efforts before client impact occurs.
• Implement security best practices across Service Integration platforms, including remediation of deprecated cryptographic standards and hardening of service‑to‑service trust models.
• Leverage AI‑powered development tools and contribute to the AI‑DLC vision to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and transform the SDLC pipeline.
• Collaborate effectively with offshore engineering teams, including Schwab India, to coordinate delivery and maintain consistent standards across time zones.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, technology, engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of software development experience, with strong hands‑on engineering contributions and a track record of technical leadership.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed service integration platforms (e.g.,…