Discover Financial Services · 3 days ago
Application Engineer
Riverwoods, IL
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$86K/yr - $146K/yr
3+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team.
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production.
Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related.
3+ years in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related.
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.
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.
Preferred
Strong experience working with programming languages – Java and Python
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
Understanding of Credit Decisioning
Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Snowflake
Gatling, Jmeter, Monitoring and Performance tooling knowledge
Full stack development experience
Cloud container Platform experience (OCP)
Experience in working in AWS cloud environment
Benefits
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
401(k) Plan
Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
Recognition Program
Education Assistance
Commuter Benefits
Family Support Programs
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Discover Financial Services
We are Discover. As one of the most recognized brands in U.S.
10,001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2024-02-19Acquired· by Capital One ($35.3B)
2007-06-22IPO· nyse:DFS
Leadership Team
Michael G. Rhodes
CEO
Roger C. Hochschild
President and Chief Operating Officer
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