*** 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 full-time basis. ***

As a Full Stack 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. 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 or related

• 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:

• Strong experience with core Java, Linux, in memory database 

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit, JMeter and Cucumber

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team

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

• Experience working with databases and NoSQL database

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

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

• Experience with cloud environments such as PCF or AWS

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

• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization applications

• Understanding of REST API development

• Understanding of digital payments or e-wallets, ISO8583

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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