Expert Application Engineer (Machine Learning)

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:

As an Expert Application Engineer focusing on Machine Learning, 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. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

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

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

• Research new technology opportunities and how they can be used to add technical capabilities at Discover
• Drives strategic technology decisions based on collaboration with a board field of experts outside of Discover
• Contributes to the external image of Discover Technology as a desired workplace to learn technology best practices
• Recognized outside of Discover as a thought leader and participates in internal and external communities
• Shapes learning paths for Discover engineers by bringing what they learn back to Discover so everyone can benefit from their experiences