Java Engineer at Charles Schwab Inc.
Austin, TX
$126,000–$142,000
Jul 19, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves building and maintaining a unified client identity platform — the system that resolves the same customer across multiple business lines to produce a single, consolidated view. Day-to-day work centers on Java/Spring backend services, cloud infrastructure, and database systems, with an expectation that engineers use AI-assisted coding tools as part of their regular workflow. It suits someone with strong ownership instincts who has worked in product-focused engineering environments rather than purely delivery-oriented ones.
Senior level · 6+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting states 'in-office collaboration' and that the selected candidate is expected to work on site, but no specific city or office location is named in the text — CBSA could not be determined. Schwab's primary engineering hubs include Westlake, TX and San Francisco, CA; the hiring manager should confirm the intended site.
The 6+ years figure is tied explicitly to Java/Spring/REST; it also serves as the best proxy for total role-level experience, so it is used as the overall minimum.
GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are listed as examples of AI-assisted tools; both are required per the Required Qualifications section. GitHub Copilot is captured as the primary skill with Claude Code as an alternative, reflecting the 'and/or' framing.
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Yugabyte are listed together under a single 2+ year distributed/NoSQL database requirement; PostgreSQL is captured as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Git, Bamboo, and Bitbucket are listed together under a single 2+ year CI/source-control requirement; Git is captured as the primary with the others as alternatives.
GCP, AWS, and Azure are listed together under a single 2+ year cloud requirement; GCP is listed first and captured as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Kafka and RabbitMQ appear under Preferred Qualifications with a 1+ year qualifier; Spring Batch and PySpark also appear under Preferred Qualifications with no year count.
Real-time/streaming application experience and scalable distributed systems design are listed as preferred but name no specific technology beyond what is already captured, so they are omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
Compensation is described only as a salary range plus bonus/incentive eligibility, but no figures are provided in the posting.
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