*** 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 Back End Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code.  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:

• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization

• Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology

• You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional.

• You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.

• Core Java

• Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)

• Microservices 

• Openshift and Kubernetes

• AWS Cloud

• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing

• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)

• Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling

• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]

• PostgreSql database

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.