Manager Application Engineering

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.

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.

We are looking to hire you, a proficiently skilled Manager Application Engineering, to be part of our department. As part of the team, you may be leading and developing new products and enhancing others while working with newer technologies. Some of the products Rewards department manage include 5% Cashback Bonus, promotional offers, redemption of rewards balance, providing different options to card customers to redeem including redemptions thru vendors like Amazon/PayPal. Our teams work in a dynamic environment with methodologies such as pair programming, test driven development and agile.

Major Responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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

• Lead and shape the technical vision within their product team 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:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related

• 6+ years of experience in 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 and Spring Framework)

• Experience with React/front end development is a plus

• Experience with containers and container platform is a plus

• Experience with designing architecture

• Knowledge of Data Engineering practices

Our Tech Stack:

• Java, React JS, Springboot, Oracle

• OpenShift or Kubernetes-based container orchestratio