Senior Associate 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:

What You Will 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

How You Will 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 Will Need:

The Basics:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related

Experience in Information Technology (software) Engineering or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Advanced Beginner 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:

Primarily remain in a stationary position.

No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

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

Primarily performed indoors in an office setting

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

Bonus Points If You Have:

Experience building Java based applications

Experience with consuming and producing REST APIs

Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization

Time spent working for an organization in financial services, specifically payment services

Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team

Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code

Experience working with a relational database

Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins preferred

Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

Experience with relational databases such as Oracle or MariaDB

Experience developing containerized applications, for example Kubernetes

Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS

Understanding of messaging systems like Rabbit MQ

Understanding of how to build secure applications

Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

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 Kingdom on a full-time basis.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Oct-30-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

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) (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters)

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