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 Full Stack 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 

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 

• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow 

• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills 

• Has an oversight on 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 

• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover 

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 

• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Experience building Java based applications

• Experience with consuming and producing REST APIs

•  Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization

• Time spent working for an organization in financial services, specifically payment services

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team

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

• Experience working with a relational database

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins preferred

• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle or MariaDB

• Experience developing containerized applications, for example Kubernetes

• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS

• Understanding of messaging systems like Rabbit MQ

• Understanding of how to build secure applications

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Feb-07-2024. 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 $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. 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.

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