Application Engineer (Full Stack)

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:

What You’ll Do

As a Full Stack Engineer on the Digital Payments team, you will be responsible for the Scalability and Modernization of digital payments that is geared towards eliminating fraud and protecting every entity within payments eco system including Discover’s consumers. You will build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack 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. 

Additionally, the engineer is responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.   Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 
• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow 
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills 
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them 

• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures 
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover 
• The chosen candidate will work in a paired programming environment
• This group follows the Agile methodology and works in 2 weeks sprints, each engineer is responsible for writing their own test scripts

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally; Ability to communicate in written form.

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Bonus Points If You Have

• The technical stack for this group includes Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Spring, Postgres, Oracle, Tomcat
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
• Experience in wor