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Principal Application Engineer

Riverwoods, IL, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 2024

💰 $175,600/yr($104,000/yr – $175,600/yr)

About the role

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

As a Principal Full Stack Application Engineer, you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. As part of our Research and Development Team, you’ll develop and maintain full stack and mobile solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains
Coaches' technology communities at Discover

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

Bachelors – Computer Science or related
6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

Experience working in front-end web development with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React and also backend tech stack
Cloud Technology – AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift
Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts
CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexu
Experience with Gradle, SonarQube, Hoverfly, Junit or Cucumbe
Techstack includes Java, Spring, Kafka, Openshift, and Jenkins
Preferably experience in the Mobile Space – iOS, Android, etc

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Mar-09-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $104,000.00 to $175,600.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include: