Principal Application Engineer (Full Stack)

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As a Principal Full Stack Application Engineer, you’ll 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. 

We are looking for a Principal Application Engineer to drive delivery in all aspects of software development. The person will act as a Product Owner for the Tech Enablement team. This will be a 50% development role who would oversee quality maturity consistency across Value Stream

You will collaborate with business product owner, vendors and your peers to execute on a broad range of projects for the Fraud, Authorization & Authentication value stream from feature enhancements to designing and building complex technical solutions. You will use Java Spring and will be equipped with modern CI/CD developer tool kit (STS/IntelliJ, Cloud Development, Microservices, GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus to name a few).This senior/consultant level technical role is a combination of engineer / implementer / developer / Product Owner driving prioritization for new technologies

The ideal candidate has implemented or supported vendor products. Additionally, this person will be a key individual in ensuring high availability SLAs are met which can be in the form of the following activities: design (specifically for product upgrades), support and maintenance, and software development.

Responsibilities 

• Partners with Sr. Product Owner(s) to develop product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy 
• Independently oversees the design process for an application 
• Coach other application engineers to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security 
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks 
• Trains others in solution design patterns 
• Coach internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns.
• 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 
• 6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with ability to present Technology topics across different levels of the Value Stream including Business stakeholders 

• Bring in Industry and Enterprise ideas / technologies to action.
• Experience developing/supporting/maintaining applications on a Linux/UNIX platform including advanced shell scripting
• Relevant hands-on experience with building highly scalable and reliable Java applications
• Experience with Java development and architecture on client facing application
• Familiarity with Event-Driven architecture (IBM MQ or similar)
• Build real-time applications using Core Java, J2EE, API, Spring boot, Microservices Kafka and Cloud Development

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview . 

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.