Principal Application Engineer

Discover. A brighter future.

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 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

• Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically does the tough parts e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customerimpacting issues within the daytoday role to management.

How Youll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze design code test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains including programming languages security automation testing and business domains. As a result is the goto person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain designthinking agile software development way of working security architecture and/or data engineering.

Qualifications Youll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Informatics Information Security or Information Technology or related
• Experience in Information Technology (Software) Engineering or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient 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.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with Java JDK 8 or higher
• Experience with Tomcat Spring Boot Spring Security REST microservices architecture
• Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Knowledge of with SQL Multithreading Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms preferably AWS
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.
• Fluent in the use of Git Jenkins.
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g. PCI DSS GDPR).
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter Gatling and similar tools.
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps/CICD Site Reliability experience for distributed systems is an advantage
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns including coding standards code reviews pair programming.

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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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)

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.