Senior Associate Application Engineer ( Backend )

• Responsible for the ability to program most features and test cases unattended, but lacks a complete overview of product development and operations. As a result, handovers to other team members limits productivity

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It
 

• 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.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology

• 1+ year of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Advance Beginner on the Dreyfus Cyber 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:

Primarily remain in a stationary position

Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form

Bonus Points If You Have
 

      •       Building applications using Java, SpringBoot, cloud/container technologies, including PCF, AWS, and OCP, Microservices, and REST APIs. 

• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks. 

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar. 

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team. 

• Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code. 

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit/Gatling/Cucumber etc. 

• Using Database Management Systems, including Oracle, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. 

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External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.