Senior Associate Application Engineer (Full Stack) at Discover Financial Services

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

***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. ***

As a Senior Associate Application Engineer, you’llbuild and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

As an Engineer on the Digital Payments team, you will be responsible for the modernization of digital payments that is geared towards eliminating fraud and protecting every entity within payments eco system including Discover’s consumers. You will build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. 

Responsibilities 

• Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended 
• Learn 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: 

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 
• 1+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advanced beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• The technical stack for this group includes Java, AWS, Kubernetes, Spring, Postgres, Oracle, TomCat
• Hands on experience working in a Cloud based environment specifically AWS
• Ideal candidate will have container implementation experience ideally using Docker as well as CI/CD pipeline experience

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