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Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack

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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  

Do you enjoy developing highly available, low latent micro-services that interact with large data sets? Are you interested in helping advanced analytics propel the business forward? 

You’ll be working in the Cyber Security organization. You’ll be working on a dynamic team who is constantly flexing to meet the needs of the business and next generation cloud technologies. ( Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, Logstash )

Responsibilities 

  • Designing, coding, and debugging software.
  • Improving the performance of existing software.
  • Recommending new technologies that can help increase productivity.
  • Investigating software-related complaints and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal environment performance.
  • Develop, coach and mentor other software engineers on the best practices providing domain and technical best practice guidance.
  • Write services and unit tests to provide code coverage looking for the code coverage to go up over time.
  • Own the run time performance of your service and code ensuring it’s behaving as expected.
  • In a team setting with other DevOps engineers, design and build tools and automation scripts that enable data scientists and business analysts to easily consume cloud-native services.
  • Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and DevOps.
  • Developing secure design patterns for analytics architectures deployed in the public cloud and/or orchestrated container environments using a ‘security first’ mindset.
  • Build automation to actively audit the infrastructure for misconfigurations.
  • Develop container image life cycle management systems.
  • Ability to adapt communication for effectiveness with business partners and other technical teams.
  • Works with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production
  • Creates and maintains devops processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models)
  • Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes; mentors junior team members
  • Develops and maintains complex backend with a focus on environment stability.
  • Regularly attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
  • Develops and maintains full stack solutions to fit business needs
  • Full stack solutions require one or more of the following: front-end (user interfaces), back-end (APIs), database and devops development.
  • Works directly with business partners to understand business requirements.
  • Independently innovates on and advocates for best practices within the team, and collaborates on them across the enterprise.
  • Carries a holistic view of all products and their interactions to design complex solutions and plan for how new projects will fit into the larger ecosystem.
  • Solves complex technical problems. Guides team in implementation of solutions from inception to production.

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

  • Bachelor's degree in information technology
  • 8+ years of experience in computer science, information technology or related field
  • In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in computer science, information technology or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience developing Java, Python and Scala services in a highly available environment using proper design patterns.
  • Proven experience in software development methodologies.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • The ability to multi-task
  • Knowledge of working with CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated build, testing, and deployment using Gradle, Jenkins.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Experience writing unit and service level tests to ensure adequate code coverage, preferably using Junit and Mockito.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases.
  • Working familiarity of Docker and other containerization technologies providing horizontal scaling such as Kubernetes or Openshift.
  • Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
  • 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
  • Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
  • Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Build secure web applications with user authentication

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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.

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What are Discover Perks + Benefits

Discover Benefits Overview

Start enjoying great benefits Day 1 — We support you with the same dedication we bring to all of our customers. Our comprehensive benefits package features first-class insurance, financial planning support and excellent perks designed to help you reach your goals and live a rich, healthy life.

Check out more of our amazing employee benefits at mydiscoverbenefits.com

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Discover’s business is built on helping people, and we invest in the community (Blessing Backpacks, Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers/Sisters) to demonstrate our commitment to a brighter future.
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
You can open a separate Health Care FSA (HCFSA) and contribute up to $2,650 tax-free from your paycheck to reimburse yourself for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
Disability insurance
Employees receive Short-Term Disability Insurance at no cost.
Dental insurance
Discover offers two dental plan options — Standard and Premier — both are administered by MetLife.
Vision insurance
Discover offers two vision plan options — Standard and Premier through VSP.
Health insurance
Discover offers a variety of medical plans for you and eligible family members, so that you can choose the benefit plan that suits your needs.
Life insurance
As a Discover employee, you receive Basic Life Insurance of one times your HWEE (up to $500,000) at no cost to you.
Pet insurance
Purchase medical coverage at a discounted rate for your beloved family pet. The more pets you insure, the greater the discount.
Wellness programs
Help balance your work and personal life with a wide variety of free and discounted resource and referral services including family and relationship counseling and financial guidance.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
You may elect to contribute 1% to 30% of your eligible base salary, commissions and bonus on a pre-tax basis, up to IRS limits every year.
401(K) matching
Discover matches up to 6% of the pre-tax contributions you make to the 401(k) Plan.
Employee stock purchase plan
The ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase shares of Discover common stock through payroll deductions at a 5% discount.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Discover helps eligible employees and their families with the costs of adoption by reimbursing certain expenses.
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Discover has a Paid Time Off of 4 to 5 Weeks of paid time per year.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Discover provides 7 paid holidays.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
When you enroll in the Commuter Benefits Program at WageWorks, you’ll save on taxes on mass-transit passes, parking and other eligible expenses.
Company-sponsored outings
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Discover has fitness centers and Weight Watchers® programs at all five major locations.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Discover provides tuition reimbursement and a full-ride bachelor's degree program for select online degree programs.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

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