Principal 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:

*** 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. ***

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 Application Engineer in our Digital Journey Product area, you will work in a highly technical agile team which supports the evolution of Discover’s award winning Mobile application utilizing the latest Discover platforms for continuous integration and cloud development.

The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly.  Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and spend more time documenting than coding.

The Principal Application Engineer is the Tech Anchor of the team fostering collaboration, mentoring  and providing  thought leadership while contributing to the building of modern software.  Come to the table with a product mindset ready to ideate, develop and maintain mobile solutions to fit the business needs and delight our customers.

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:

• Team Leadership including cross-team collaboration
• Experience with system design and architecture
• Expertise in object-oriented design and implementation, and capable of forming a deep understanding of our underlying frameworks and languages
• Experience with Mobile app development
• Knowledge of React Native, Redux, and Frontend application frameworks
• Experience with REST Web Services development
• Experience with Test automation tools Selenium, Appium, Cucumber, etc.
• Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, GitHub, and Git Command line is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar
• Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with peers to solve complex problems
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Experience building applying security principles to mobile applications
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

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 Aug-11-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation: