Application Engineer ( Backend )

As an 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. 

In this specific role, you will be part of a product team and will collaborate with a cross-functional team to design and develop technical solutions and review the work of their peers. The position involves supporting core financial functionality of the Card business, as well as working to break apart a monolithic, batch based system into modern, cloud-based microservices

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology

• Diagnose opportunities for automation and efficiency in the end to end product delivery cycle

• Solve complex technical problems and explore new ways to bring value

• Collaborate with our business partners to understand all business requirements

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 

• 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, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology  or related 

• 3+ Years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

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

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Cloud Technology – AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift

• Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts

• CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus

• Techstack include Java, Spring, Kafka, Openshift, and Jenkins

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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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.