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:

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 part of the Collections Value Stream within Discover, you will work on an Agile Team with our business partners to build and maintain consumer focused systems within our Company. Within our Customer Assistance platform, we help deliver the Collections experience to the Discover website and the software utilized by our call service agents. We are building out our capabilities around our next generation Container & Serverless management platform by leveraging OpenShift from Kubernetes. If you are truly passionate about technology and enjoy being part of a highly innovative, collaborative team then this role is for you!  

As an Application Engineer (Back End) you will be responsible for Payment Program offers and enrollments by building and releasing 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. 

Responsibilities:
•    Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology
•    Diagnose opportunities for automation and efficiency in 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 
•    Achieve team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills 
•    Oversee design decisions and guide team to achieve key results for products assigned
•    Remediate issues using engineering principles and create design solutions for failures 
•    Contribute to and lead technology communities at Discover 

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 competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications 
Bonus Points If You Have: 

•    Spring Boot, Spring MVC
•    Experience with modernizing legacy platforms
•    Cloud Technology – AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift
•    Automation mindset as 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

Application Deadline:

Compensation:

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.