Lead Java Developer
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 Financial Services is looking for a Lead Java Developer to drive delivery in all aspects of software development. You will collaborate with product managers and your peers to execute on a broad range of projects from feature enhancements to designing and building complete technical solutions. You will use Java Spring and will be equipped with modern CI/CD developer tool kit (STS/IntelliJ, Cloud Development, GitHub, Jenkins, and Nexus to name a few).
Our Fraud, Authorization & Authentication Value Stream is responsible for all development of our related digital products across our Card division. We would be thrilled to have you join our digital transformation journey.
Responsibilities
- Maintains application software and systems. Ensures all projects and releases are appropriately tested and risks are mitigated.
- Delivers technology solutions that support business goals. Partners with the product owner to understand business requirements, evaluates features, and translates application specifications into workable technical solutions.
- Supports technical initiatives and provides input into best practices to team.
- Oversees and reviews development activities of team members and contractors.
- Break down a product vision into workable technical solutions to solve business problems
- Build high quality software for large scale and highly available systems
- Actively contribute to the department’s developer community to support our cloud native journey
- Provide strong technical and team leadership
- Talk about your work with both technical and non-technical team members
- Responsible for analyzing, modifying, and supporting application software.
- Ensures quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing.
- Performs technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Computer Systems, or related technical field
- 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related field
- In lieu of degree, 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- Must have relevant hands-on experience with building highly scalable and reliable Java applications
- Experience with Java development on client facing application
- 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.