Senior Associate Application Engineer

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:
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
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 Senior Associate Full Stack Engineer, you'll build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you'll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You'll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of
our larger technical ecosystem.
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.
Responsibilities:

• 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:

• Bachelors - Computer Science or related
• Experience in 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:

• Experience building Java based applications
• Experience with consuming and producing REST APIs
• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
• Time spent working for an organization in financial services, specifically payment services
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
• Experience working with a relational database
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins preferred
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle or MariaDB
• Experience developing containerized applications, for example Kubernetes
• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS
• Understanding of messaging systems like Rabbit MQ
• Understanding of how to build secure applications
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Sep-02-2024. 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.
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