Application Engineer (ReactJS)

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:

Join our team as a Web Component Developer and embark on a thrilling journey of creativity and innovation! Dive into the world of web development as you partner with our Design team and build captivating components that bring websites to life. Get ready to unleash your passion for development and make your mark on the digital realm in a dynamic and exciting environment!

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

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

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture 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 to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
• Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.