Principal 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
Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look.  Typically does the tough parts – e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.                                         

Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.                                                              

How You’ll Do It
Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.      

Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains.  As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.                                        

Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.                                     

Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.        

Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.                                      

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Bachelors – Computer Science,  Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related

• 6+ years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient on the Dreyfus Cyber 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.

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.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Building applications using Java, SpringBoot, cloud/container technologies, including PCF, AWS, and OCP, Microservices, and REST APIs.

• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks.

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar.

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.

• Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code.

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit/Gatling/Cucumber etc.

• Using Database Management Systems, including Oracle, MariaDB and PostgreSQL.

• External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

• Websphere and Spring experience is highly desirable.

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 t