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Senior Associate Application Engineer (Backend)

Posted 14 Days Ago
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Hybrid
Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England
Mid level
Hybrid
Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England
Mid level
As a Senior Associate Application Engineer, you will autonomously program features and user stories, manage risks and customer-impacting issues, contribute to agile processes, lead presentations, and learn about system design and operational support.
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Job Description:
What You'll Do
Responsible for the ability to program most features and test cases unattended but lacks a complete overview of product development and operations. As a result, handovers to other team members limits productivity. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
How You'll Do It

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

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related
  • Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advance beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale


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Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

  • Primarily remain in a stationary position.
  • No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
  • Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
  • Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
  • Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.


Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:

  • Experience with Java, Spring, Microservices, OpenShift, Python, AWS.


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.
Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Feb-11-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
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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.
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.

Top Skills

Java
Python

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