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Hybrid
Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England
Mid level
Hybrid
Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England
Mid level
As a Back End Engineer, you will analyze, design, and develop solutions for application software in an Agile environment, ensuring quality code delivery through continuous integration and testing. You will guide Associate Engineers, focus on design decision oversight, and manage customer-impacting issues.
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Job Description:
*** 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.
Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Feb-02-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
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)
Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email [email protected] . Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.
Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.

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