Application Engineer (Back End)

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 Kingdom on a full-time basis. ***
As a Back End Engineer, you'll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you'll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you'll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

This engineer role will be hands-on, working within an agile scrum team you will deliver software solutions from inception to production covering the whole SDLC. The role is very strategic in the growth and technical advancement of the Digital Payments platform at Discover. The software you help build will be consumed directly by Discover card holders at speed and scale.

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
• Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related experience
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:

• Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology
• You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types - scripting, OO, functional.
• You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.
• Core Java (JDK17)
• Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)
• Microservices
• Openshift and Kubernetes
• AWS Cloud
• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]

And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.
Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Sept-09-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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