Discover. A more rewarding way to work.

At Discover Financial Services, you’ll find yourself in the company of some of the industry’s smartest and most reliable professionals. And at a company that rewards dedication, values innovation and supports growth.

Thrive in an environment that promotes teamwork and shared success. Build on a foundation of mutual respect. Join the company that understands rewarding careers like no other, with this exceptional opportunity:

Job Description:

Position Description:

Discover Financial Services is looking for a senior/consultant level software developer to drive delivery in all aspects of software development. You will collaborate with business product owner, vendors and your peers to execute on a broad range of projects for the Fraud, Authorization & Authentication value stream from feature enhancements to designing and building complex technical solutions. You will use Java Spring and will be equipped with modern CI/CD developer tool kit (STS/IntelliJ, Cloud Development, Microservices, GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus to name a few).

This senior/consultant level technical role is a combination of architect / implementer / developer. The ideal candidate has implemented or supported vendor products. Additionally, this person will be a key individual in ensuring high availability SLAs are met which can be in the form of the following activities: architectural design (specifically for product upgrades), support and maintenance, and software development.

You will be successful at Discover if you can:

• Scope business project requirements for application impact
• Break down a product vision into workable technical solutions to solve business problems
• Collaborate with the Fraud, Authorization & Authentication business units, vendor partners, and technical infrastructure groups to achieve high availability and project delivery.
• Collaborate with vendor to apply patches, hotfixes, etc.
• Lead major version upgrade activities
• Maintenance/BAU activities associated with infrastructure or business requested changes
• Support activities during production events
• Build high quality software for large scale and highly available systems
• Actively contribute to the Value Stream developer community to support our cloud native journey
• Provide strong technical leadership within the Value Stream
• Talk about your work with both technical and non-technical team members
• Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
• Design and develop applications in an Agile environment utilizing test driven development methodologies
• Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes

Skills:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 8+ years work experience

• Build real-time applications using Core Java, J2EE, API, Spring boot, Microservices Kafka and Cloud Development
• Experience developing/supporting/maintaining applications on a Linux/UNIX platform including advanced shell scripting
• Relevant hands-on experience with building highly scalable and reliable Java applications
• Experience with Java development and architecture on client facing application
• Familiarity with Event-Driven architecture (IBM MQ or similar)
• Experience working with an iterative software development methodology
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles
• Self-motivated and openly challenging the team to continuously improve

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Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.

So, what are you waiting for? Apply today!