At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.  

*** 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. *** 

As part of the Collections Value Stream within Discover, you will work on an Agile Team with our business partners to build and maintain consumer focused systems within our Company. This Application Engineer role is within our Pay My Account Product Family. We are the internal technology team that handles the customer and agent expereince for setting up and modifying payments and bank infomration across numerous channels. We are building out our capabilities and migrating our legacy tech stacks to a React - microservice architecture hosted in OpenShift. If you are truly passionate about technology and enjoy being part of a highly innovative, collaborative team then this role is for you!

As an Application Engineer, you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production.  

In this specific role, you will be part of a product team and will collaborate with a cross-functional team to design and develop technical solutions and review the work of their peers. The position involves supporting core financial functionality of the Card business, as well as working to break apart a monolithic, batch based system into modern, cloud-based microservices. 

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology 

• Diagnose opportunities for automation and efficiency in the end to end product delivery cycle 

• Solve complex technical problems and explore new ways to bring value 

• Collaborate with our business partners to understand all business requirements 

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

• 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 or related  

• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related  

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

Preferred Qualifications  

Bonus Points If You Have:  

• Experience with Payments and ACH 

• Cloud Technology – AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift 

• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture 

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

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

• Techstack includes Java, Spring, Kafka, Openshift, and Jenkins