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Job Description
What You’ll Do
The Application Engineer is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of assigned products. You will take user stories and new features from idea to production independently. You will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues to management.
How You’ll Do It
1. Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understand the software development lifecycle and leverage critical thinking skills to evaluate features and functionality.
2. Guide early-career engineers by providing learning and work-related tasks, directing their work, and mentoring to grow their technical skills.
3. Have oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guide the team to achieve key results.
4. Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability.
5. Achieve team commitments and influence others through collaboration with engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists.
6. Contribute to and lead technology communities of practice at Discover in areas such as design-thinking, tools/technology, agile development, security, architecture, and data.
7. Create and enforce IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and ensure compatibility with the platform architecture.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, we require:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related field.
* Experience in Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related.
* For roles requiring Dreyfus Rating – Internal applicants only: competent technical proficiency on the Dreyfus engineering scale.
Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements are representative of those needed to perform essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform these functions:
* Primarily remain in a stationary position.
* No required movement about the work environment.
* Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
* Operate office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, and calculators.
* Communicate verbally and in writing.
Bonus Points If You Have
* Hands-on technical leadership with programming languages like Java and Python, building highly available environments using proper design patterns.
* Proven experience in software development methodologies.
* Strong analytical skills and ability to multi-task.
* Experience in Agile teams.
* Hands-on experience with cloud environments such as AWS.
* Experience with EMR, Spark, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and technologies like SpringBoot, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.
* Experience with TDD, BDD, unit testing, and high availability design.
* Experience developing and implementing API architectures and working with relational databases.
* Proficiency with infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
* Understanding messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Kinesis.
* Effective communication and collaboration skills.
* AWS and Java certifications are a plus.
External applicants will perform a technical interview. Discover will not sponsor or transfer work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the UK full-time.
Application Deadline
The application window closes on Apr-22-2025. We encourage early applications. The posting may remain open past this date but is not guaranteed.
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Additional Information
Discover values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. For accommodations, contact HireAccommodation@discover.com.
This role is limited to remote locations within the country where the position is based.
Applicants must be 18 or older at hire.
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