Senior Software Engineer, Trading Platforms

About this role

## 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).

Join the Order Execution & Management team in delivering high-throughput, reliable, and low-latency trading solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building scalable distributed systems, modern automation capabilities, and next-generation engineering solutions. This role requires strong software development skills, problem-solving abilities, and a desire to work across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams to deliver innovative solutions that improve reliability, performance, and engineering productivity.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of building and supporting mission-critical applications and services, embracing modern technologies, and helping drive innovation through automation, intelligent tooling, and engineering excellence.

What You Are Good At

• As a senior engineer, you are a self-driven individual contributor who designs and develops robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Leading complex technical initiatives, automation programs, and engineering improvements across trading and financial technology platforms.
• Quickly understanding complex business and technical challenges and delivering practical, scalable solutions.
• Applying strong software engineering principles, coding expertise, and automation tooling to solve development, reliability, and operational challenges.
• Understanding distributed architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and parallel processing systems.
• Leveraging modern engineering practices, ...