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:

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 Principal Full Stack Application 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 

• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities  

• Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team) 

• Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole 

• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains 

• Coaches' technology communities at Discover 

 

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 

• 6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 

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

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Java

• AEM

• Spring boot

• React

• Experience with UI Technology

• TDD, BDD

• Selenium/Cucumber for test automations

• Knowledge of Cloud, containerization

• Strong team player

 

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jul-02-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this