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Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.  Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production

• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow

• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills

• Has an oversight on 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

• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology  or related 

• 3+ Years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

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Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications, Bonus Points If You Have:

• Building applications using Java, SpringBoot, cloud/container technologies, including PCF, AWS, and OCP, Microservices, and REST APIs. 

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar. 

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team. 

• Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code. 

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit/Gatling/Cucumber etc. 

• Using Database Management Systems, including Oracle, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. 

• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks would be nice

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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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.

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, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover.