Application Engineer (Back End)

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

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

• 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

• Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)

• Microservices 

• Openshift and Kubernetes

• AWS Cloud

• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing

• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)

• Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling

• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]

• PostgreSql database

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.