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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.

The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly.  Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and spend more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

The Principal Application Engineer is responsible for leading the technical design, development and monitoring for our products. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment of cloud ready systems and services. 
This role collaborates with Product teams internal and external to provide world class products and services in support of our application development community and our business as whole.

Responsibilities

• 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, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology 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

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java, Node JS, React JS/Next, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Spring Boot technologies

• Cloud-based technology experience – AWS, OpenShift

• Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts

• CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus, SonarQube

• Ability to work closely with a business initiative owners and product owners

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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