Principal Application Engineer (Back End)

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:
*** 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. ***
As a Back End Engineer, you'll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you'll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you'll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities

• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
• Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains
• Coaches' technology communities at Discover

Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelors - Computer Science or related
• Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology
• Cloud-based technology experience - AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift
• Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts
• CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus
• Ability to work closely with a business initiative owners and product owners
• Knowledge on Java8, Spring boot API Dev, Spring JDBC, security (AES, JWE, JWS)
• Expertise in domain driven design, test automation and capable of forming a deep understanding of our underlying frameworks and languages
• Understanding of REST Web Services, JSON and Design Patterns using various technologies
• Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, GitHub, and Git Command line is a plus
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
  Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.
Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Sept-04-2024. 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!
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