What You’ll Do

• 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.

How You’ll 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 early-career 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 design-thinking, 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.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, informatics, information security, or information technology

• 3+ years 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:

• Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing? Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job? No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? If so, provide the weight of the heaviest object the job needs to transport without the aid of machinery or equipment or the weight equivalency with the aid of machinery or equipment. No

• Primarily, where is this job performed? Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Select all that apply. Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

• Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Select all that apply. Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

• Does the job require travel? No

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with Java development on client facing application

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team  

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

• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database 

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory  

• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring  

• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture  

• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake  

• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.  

• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis. 

• Build secure web applications with user authentication  

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies  

• Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies  

• Developing applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

• Linux/Unix environment background including shell scripting

​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 States on a full-time basis.