Senior Associate Application Engineer at Discover Financial Services

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.

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 + years of 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.
• 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
 

• Experience in Java, Spring Boot/Batch
• Experience in Delivering, building complex data infrastructure applications like large batches/Event driven publishing solutions

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.