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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.

As a Senior Associate Application Engineer (Full-Stack), you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. You will partner with enterprise-wide teams and develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of products (and their interactions) to create 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 team on implementing solutions from inception to production. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues to management day-to-day.

  Responsibilities

• Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended

• Learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, test driven development, operations, and security

• Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities

• Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole

• Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product

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

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

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

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advanced beginner 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. 

• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks. 

• 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. 

• External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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.