Java/AI Developer

Pay range: USD $48.08 - $62.50 / Hour

Your opportunity

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.

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).

Schwab is seeking a dynamic software developer who can work with technical and business partners to design and maintain optimal programming and environment solutions. Job activities will involve researching, developing solutions and supporting the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements, and help drive strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders.

The position involves a balanced mix of design and hands-on coding, focused on our mission-critical client data shared services platform. You will join a development team building resilient, configuration driven shared utilities and frameworks for data pipelines and message delivery. The role centers on designing, developing, and hardening these frameworks and delivering POCs to validate solution designs. It requires collaboration with other engineering teams to ensure seamless system integration. Exposure to technologies includes Kafka, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot, GCP, and Harness.

Qualified candidates will have experience in Postgres SQL query tuning, performance optimization, data modelling and exposure to building apps with Java/Spring Boot.

In this role, you will:

• Research and development of (functional and technical specifications documents) production and test environments, architecture/design/develop solutions.

• Develop plans for proof of concept and validation of technology/solutions.

• Develop and support the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements.

• Participate in strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders

• Identify gaps in processes and services across environments.

• Review programming and environment changes and raise awareness for potential impacts.

• Effective and efficient utilization of programming tools.

• Architect and develop effective solutions that are in line with the organization's vision.

• Actively participate in product design and development sessions.

• Provide direction to less experienced Programmer/Analysts.

• Engaging with both onshore and offshore teams to refine development practices.

• Identify gaps in processes and services across production and test environments.

• Write efficient, easy to follow technical documentation.

• Act as liaison between technical and non-technical counterparts.

• Help improve release process improvements, assisting the Scrum Master with team needs, and synchronizing team efforts for seamless product releases.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

Demonstrated exposure to, or hands-on experience with, GenAI coding assistants used across day-to-day engineering workflows in the SDLC-implementation, refactoring, unit testing, regression support, code reviews, scripting/automation, troubleshooting, and documentation-while applying engineering judgment and validation. Practical familiarity with tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code is expected.

• Uses AI assistance for common dev tasks (code suggestions, test generation, review support, automation scripts, troubleshooting) with clear ownership for correctness and quality.

• Applies GenAI in ways that reduce context switching and accelerate delivery across typical workflows (not limited to writing new code).

• Demonstrates practical familiarity with GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Code within IDE/CLI-style workflows.

• Working knowledge of agentic workflows, spec-driven development (translating low-level design artifacts such as class structures, API contracts, and data models into structured specs that guide AI-assisted implementation), and custom instructions and prompt engineering, with the ability to establish team-level practices for effective AI-assisted development.

• 1+ years with SQL structured programming, troubleshooting, and performance tuning relational databases on PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and/or MSSQL for high-volume, transactional applications

• 1+ years of experience developing relational and non-relational data models using enterprise modeling tools such as Erwin or ER/Studio

• 3+ years of experience with the following: Java, Spring framework, Spring boot.

• 1+ years of experience with cloud framework: Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

• 1+ years of experience working with build tools: Gradle/maven.

• 1+ years of experience working with Cucumber framework - BDD testing.

• 1+ years of experience working with YugabyteDB and PostgresSQL databases.

• 1-2 years of experience working with modern messaging system- Kafka.

• Prior experience in system modernization initiatives from legacy to distributed platforms; i.e. migration of events from legacy messaging platform IBM MQ/Rabbit to Kafka etcc

• 1+ years of experience with continuous build process using Bamboo, Bitbucket/Git, or similar

• Experience with the Atlassian tool stack (JIRA).

• AI-Assisted Engineering Skills

• Practical experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or enterprise-approved AI tools

• Ability to use AI tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, SQL generation, and test creation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GCP or GCP developer certified.

• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment.

• Experience in Financial Services industry

• Experience with Test driven development.

• SCRUM developer certified.

• Basic understanding of customer and account data management, how databases are designed to support maximum business value, and delivering optimal solutions based on business context

• Demonstrated ability to quickly investigate and comprehend new data technologies

• Exceptional critical thinking skills and insatiable intellectual curiosity

• Proactive approach to identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and advocating for their prioritization.

• 2+ years translating business requirements into resilient database designs and collaborating with application developers to connect application object models to relational database designs, ensuring high availability, performance, and transactional throughput/concurrency.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What's in it for you

At Schwab, you're empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance