Front-end Software Engineer, Senior Specialist

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).  This role is expected to be in the office 4 days a week.

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

DAF Technologies operating under DAFgiving360 is seeking an experienced back end or full stack developer. DAF Technologies provides the technology capabilities for DAFgiving360, an independent public charity created to help increase charitable giving in the United States by offering the flexible giving solution of a donor-advised fund account. 

Schwab Charitable operates as an independent charity, but is closely affiliated with and enjoys the support of Charles Schwab & Co, including contractual agreements to provide a variety of services including technology. This position will be an employee of Charles Schwab & Co. and will be subject to its human resources and risk policies and procedures.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, test, and support software applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Participate in system design discussions and contribute to defining technical requirements.
• Build and maintain automated tests to support quality and reliability.
• Release applications to production on a regular cadence using modern CI/CD practices.
• Provide production support for applications that require high availability and reliability.
• Share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

• Front-end engineering: Production experience building modern web UIs with Angular and/or React (component architecture, state management, routing, performance, accessibility, dependency injection, micro frontend architecture).
• Build responsive UI using Material UI components and custom CSS.
• Consume REST API responses and map data to UI components such as tables, forms, and dropdowns.
• Implement token-based authentication for secure API access.
• Back-end engineering: 2-4+ years hands on server-side development with C# .NET, ASP.NET plus professional experience some (RESTful services, messaging, security, observability).
• 2+ years CI/CD & DevOps experience: Practical experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Bamboo, and Bitbucket (branching strategies, PR workflows, build/test automation, environment promotion, release orchestration).
• Messaging & APIs: 2-3+ years working with RabbitMQ and GraphQL; experience with API, SOAP, and REST technologies.
• Data layer expertise: 2-3+ years with MongoDB, Oracle, and SQL Server (schema design, performance tuning, transactions, indexing, and ORMs like Entity Framework).
• Quality engineering: Unit testing culture with coverage and code quality monitored; comfortable with test doubles, contract testing, and CI quality gates.
• Tooling & collaboration: Moderate experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira) for documentation and delivery governance.
• Communication & leadership: Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate complex technical topics for non-technical stakeholders.
• Team culture: High EQ with a track record of increasing collaboration, and fostering a healthy, inclusive work environment.
• Agile: 2+ years of Scrum experience.  
• SAFe delivery: 2+ years’ experience with multi team PI planning, backlog curation, dependency management, and cross train coordination; comfortable facilitating ceremonies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred knowledge of DAFGiving360 applications and use cases.
• Knowledge donor advised fund workflows, platform services, and the mission of increasing charitable giving—able to align technical decisions to compliance and user experience expectations.
• Security & risk awareness: Knowledge of enterprise risk controls, audit readiness, and secure coding AI-assisted software development, GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, code review automation, unit test generation, MCP integration.