Senior Associate Application Engineer

What You’ll Do  

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.

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: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related 
• 1+ years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advance beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale

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Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Experience with Java, AWS, and (GIT) version control system
• Working knowledge of the following technologies is a plus: Elasticsearch, Kafka, Terraform, and Ansible

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.

• 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, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• 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

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