Application Engineer- Backend

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With us youll 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 worlds 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:

What Youll Do

As an Application Engineer youll analyze develop and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment youll do this by performing technical design coding with test automation support and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately through continuous integration development and testing youll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customerimpacting issues within the daytoday role to management.

How Youll Do It

• 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 earlycareer 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 designthinking 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.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum heres what we need from you:

• Bachelors Computer Science Engineering Informatics Information Security Information Technology or related
• Experience in Information Technology (Software) Engineering or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal state and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• 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 Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Big Data Framework such as Spark
• Cloud Platform experience specifically AWS
• Java and Python
• Automation experience

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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 fulltime basis.

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work.To deliver on our promises to our customers each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability protected veteran status or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

Discover complies with federal state and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position to complete an application and/or to participate in an interview please email .Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.