Principal Application Engineer

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. 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. 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 guiding, influencing and teaching engineer

• Agile/Digital transformation experience
• Java, Cucumber, React, Microservices, RESTful, Angular, Javascript
• 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 working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure. 
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis. 
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application 
• Build secure web applications with user authentication 
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies 

 

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-22-2024. 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:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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