*** Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis. *** As a Back End Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. This engineer role will be hands-on, working within an agile scrum team to deliver software solutions from inception to production covering the whole SDLC. The role is very strategic in the growth and technical advancement of the Digital Payments platform at Discover. The software you help build will be consumed directly by Discover card holders at speed and scale. Responsibilities Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Tend to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work-related tasks, direct the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and help them continue to grow. Achieve team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills. Oversee design decisions and guide the team to achieve key results for products assigned to them. Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures. Contribute to and lead technology communities at Discover. Minimum Qualifications At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: Bachelors – Computer Science or related field. Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related experience. Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale. Preferred Qualifications Bonus Points If You Have: Experience working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology. Competency & confidence in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional. Hands-on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of a "you build it, you run it" culture. Core Java (JDK17). Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc.). Microservices. Openshift and Kubernetes. AWS Cloud. REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing. Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]. And by the way, while you’re waiting to hear from us, don’t forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers. Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Dec-16-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed. Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision) Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.
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