.Net Software Engineer, Senior Specialist

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). 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.
  
  

What you have

Required Qualifications

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have:

• Front-end engineering: Production experience building modern web UIs with Angular and/or React (component architecture, state management, routing, performance, accessibility).
• 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).
• 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.
• Cloud proficiency: Exposure to Azure/AWS, infrastructure as code (e.g., ARM/Bicep/Terraform), containerization, secrets management, and environment hardening.
• Security & risk awareness: Knowledge of enterprise risk controls, audit readiness, and secure coding standards (authN/authZ, encryption, vulnerability management).
• Observability & reliability: Experience instrumenting applications for logs/metrics/traces, setting SLIs/SLOs, and using dashboards/alerts to maintain service health.
  
  

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

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