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:

What You’ll Do

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.

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture 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 to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
• Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related
• 3+ years Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency 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.

Bonus Points If You Have
 

• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
• Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology
• You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional.
• You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.
• Core Java
• Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)
• Microservices 
• Openshift and Kubernetes
• AWS Cloud
• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
• Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling
• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behavior Driven Development [BDD]
• PostgreSql database

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.


Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Ma