Principal Application Engineer (Backend)

What You’ll Do 

Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look.  Typically does the tough parts – e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.  Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains.  As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related
• 6+ years of experience in Information Technology(software), Engineering, or related 

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

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing?  Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job?  No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? If so, provide the weight of the heaviest object the job needs to transport without the aid of machinery or equipment or the weight equivalency with the aid of machinery or equipment.  No
• Primarily, where is this job performed?  Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Select all that apply.  Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer.
• Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Select all that apply.  Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
• Does the job require travel?  No
• Does this role require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job?   No

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Strong hands-on Technical Lead having 10+ years of experience with programming languages like Java and Python services and building highly available environment using proper design patterns
• Proven experience in software development methodologies
•  Strong analytical skills and ability to multi-task
•  Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
•  Strong hands-on experience and understanding of working in a cloud environment such as AWS
•  Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
•  Experience with the following technologies: SpringBoot, Gradle, Ansible, GitHub/GitFlow, PCF/OCP/Kubernetes technologies, Artifactory
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD, Cucumber test framework)
• Experience writing unit and service level tests to ensure adequate code coverage (JUnits)
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
• Experience in working with a relational database
• Experience provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to be able to partner with business stakeholders and other technical teams
• Hands-on experience with Drools Engine and AWS Certification!

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.