Application Engineer (Full Stack)
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.
As a Full Stack Application 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. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production.
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
- 4+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of React, Redux, and Java application frameworks.
- Expertise in object-oriented design and implementation, and capable of forming a deep understanding of our underlying frameworks and language.
- Passionate about development and writing correct, and efficient code.
- Understanding of REST Web Services, JSON and Design Patterns using various technologies.
- Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, GitHub, and Git Command line is a plus.
- Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with peers to solve complex problems.
- Development experience across both Web & Mobile platforms.
- Comfortable with system design and architectural concepts.
- Experience in utilization of open source projects.
- Proficient across the technical stack, able to deliver quality code at all tiers.
- 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 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.
- Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application.
- Build secure web applications with user authentication.
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies.
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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.