Application Engineer

As a 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 

• Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended 
• Learns more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, test driven development, operations, and security 
• Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities 
• Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole 

• Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product 

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 advanced beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Experience with Java development on client facing application
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team  
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code  
• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database 
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory  
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring  
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture  
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake  
• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.  
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis. 
• Build secure web applications with user authentication  
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies  
• Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies  
• Developing applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Linux/Unix environment background including shell scripting

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

What are you waiting for? Apply today! 

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work.  To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management. 

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover