Lead Software Developer
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
Discover Financial Services is looking for a Lead Software Developer to drive delivery in all aspects of software development. You will collaborate with product owners and your peers as part of a scrum team to execute on a broad range of projects related to our next generation platform for Portfolio Management and Software Delivery.
Responsible for analyzing, modifying, and supporting application software. Ensure quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing. Perform technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.
Responsibilities
- Supports technical initiatives and provides input into best practices to your team
- Designs and reviews development activities of junior team members.
- Ensures quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development and testing
- Acts as SME for scrum team developing quality software using JAVA, Groovy, REST API-based micro-service and SpringBoot
- 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.
- Maintains application software and systems. Ensures all projects and releases are appropriately tested and risks are mitigated.
- Oversees and reviews development activities of team members and contractors.
- Understands basics of cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
Required Skills
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, or relevant field
- 6+ years of Software Engineering or related experience
- In lieu of degree, 8+ years of Software Engineering or related experience
Desired Skills
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- Relevant hands-on experience with building highly scalable and reliable Java applications
- Experience in design and implementation of REST API-based micro-services using Java, SpringBoot technologies
- Experience working with Jira customizations
- Solid understanding of Jira workflows configuration and customizations
- Understanding of development flow in Jira
- Experience working with groovy
- Experience using Jira Rest APIs
- Experience working on different Databases, preferably Snowflake and PostgreSQL
- Experience with writing optimized database queries
- AWS Cloud & Services
- Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub;
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
- 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.
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- 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.