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:

What you'll do

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. This Application Engineer role is with our Tech Enablement team. With technology being a primary catalyst of change in the way we do our business, we are focused on forward looking technology initiatives and high value technology challenges. Our primary goal is introduction and solutioning of new capabilities/processes through Proof of Concepts (POC), technical adoption assistance, and piloting technology-driven best practices. If you are truly passionate about technology and enjoy being part of a highly innovative, collaborative team then this role is for you! Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through, but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

• 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.

• Bachelors - Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology

• 3+ Years - Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

• Experience with Payments and ACH

• Cloud Technology - AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift

• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture

• Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts

• CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus

• Techstack includes Java, Spring, Kafka, Openshift, React, and Jenkins
• External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan