Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and spend more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities

• Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)

• Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole

• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains

• Coaches' 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 proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

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

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

• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application

• Build secure web applications with user authentication

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

• Exposure to Openshift

Application Deadline:

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

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