Senior Full Stack Java Engineer – Data Streaming
Southlake, TX
Requisition ID 2026-128726 Category Engineering & Software Development Position type Regular Pay range USD $135,000.00 - $160,000.00 / Year Application deadline 2026-10-31
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).
Based in Southlake, Texas, you’ll join the Data Exchange team and help build resilient enterprise solutions that support the reliable, timely movement of operational data across the firm. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll design, develop, test, and operate scalable applications, APIs, microservices, streaming pipelines, and batch-processing solutions using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies.
You’ll take ownership from solution design through production, ing problem-solving and sound technical decision-making to improve system throughput, latency, scalability, and reliability. Working across engineering, platform, quality assurance, production support, and business teams, you’ll translate complex needs into maintainable solutions, define effective data and integration patterns, and clearly communicate technical choices and trade-offs. Your curiosity, adaptability, and commitment to continuous learning will help simplify complex problems and advance modern engineering practices.
What you have
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including strong Java development skills and experience, and Spring or Spring Boot
Experience developing user-interface components with Angular. React experience will be considered as well.
3+ years of public-cloud engineering experience building and deploying production applications and services
Experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications
Experience building production-grade batch-processing or data-ingestion solutions using Spring Batch or comparable frameworks
Experience developing event-driven or streaming solutions with Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, or comparable technologies
Experience with cloud native services such as Cloud compute, storage and network services.
Strong SQL and relational database skills, including troubleshooting and performance-tuning complex queries and data-processing workloads
Ability to automated testing, observability, resiliency, code-quality, and production-readiness practices throughout the software development lifecycle
Experience with Linux, shell scripting, source control, and CI/CD tools
Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ownership in diagnosing complex application, infrastructure, database, and integration issues
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs to varied audience
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related degree, OR related practical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience designing or operating high-volume operational data stores, enterprise data exchanges, integration platforms, or similar data platforms
Experience with data modeling, schema design, data contracts, schema evolution, data quality, lifecycle management, or performance optimization
Knowledge of data warehousing and enterprise data architecture
Experience with Informatica or comparable enterprise data-integration platforms
Experience ing monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing, capacity-planning, and performance-analysis practices
Experience providing technical leadership, reviewing designs and code, sharing knowledge, or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on
In addition to the salary range, this role is 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
Eligible Schwabbies receive
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) and employee stock purchase plans
Tuition reimbursement to keep developing your career
Paid parental leave and adoption/family building benefits
Sabbatical leave available after five years of employment