Manager Application Engineering ( Full Stack )

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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 Manager Application Engineering, you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results.

Responsibilities

• Guide and drive teams to efficient engineering solutions for achieving iterative business deliverables, this will include but not limited to designing system architecture, writing code or providing out of box solutions with POC.

• Question the status quo and strive to establish the right engineering culture and mindset. Encourage teams to own the product and create engineering solutions focusing on customer needs.

• Leads and utilizes highly technical skills to contribute as an engineer within a product team designing, developing code and maintaining quality technology solutions for a product or set of products including developing own subject matter expertise. Demonstrated experience in multiple software languages, modern software methods, CI/CD, cloud, and automated testing.

• Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and process across the team, and driving towards resolution of challenging problems.   This includes all performance management aspects of leading the engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews. Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement.

• Mentor and lead a staff of engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly technically competent, consistent, thoughtful and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the group is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team, and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team.

• Lead and shape the technical vision within their domain and be an essential member of leadership team including acting as a leader in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science or related

• 6+ years Information Technology, Software Engineering or Related

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• 2+ years People Leadership

• Hands on experience with Object Oriented programming (hands on experience with Java Development)

• Experience with React/front end development is a plus

• Experience with containers and container platform is a plus

• Experience with designing architecture

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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