Application Engineer

at  Discover Financial Services

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:

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.
As part of the Collections Value Stream within Discover, you will work on an Agile Team with our business partners to build and maintain consumer focused systems within our Company. Within our Digital Payments platform, we help deliver the Collections experience to the Discover website and the software utilized by our call service agents. We are building out our capabilities around our next generation Container & Serverless management platform by leveraging OpenShift from Kubernetes. If you are truly passionate about technology and enjoy being part of a highly innovative, collaborative team then this role is for you!
As an Application Engineer on the team responsible for Account Center and Mobile Payment functionality, you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology
• Diagnose opportunities for automation and efficiency in the end to end product delivery cycle
• Solve complex technical problems and explore new ways to bring value
• Collaborate with our business partners to understand all business requirements
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover

AT A MINIMUM, HERE’S WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

• Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology
• Diagnose opportunities for automation and efficiency in the end to end product delivery cycle
• Solve complex technical problems and explore new ways to bring value
• Collaborate with our business partners to understand all business requirements
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discove