Application Engineer ( BackEnd )

$86,500 - $146,100/Yr

Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Riverwoods, IL

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About the position

The position is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of products within a team at Discover, a leading digital banking and payments company. The role involves taking user stories and new features from concept to production, managing risks, and ensuring high-quality delivery. The individual will mentor early-career engineers and guide them in their technical development while also contributing to technology communities and enforcing IT standards.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality to production.
• Understand the software development lifecycle and evaluate features and functionality using critical thinking skills.
• Guide early-career engineers by providing learning tasks and directing their work to help them grow in their technical skillset.
• Oversee application, system, and architecture design decisions to achieve key results for assigned products.
• Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures.
• Achieve team commitments through collaboration with engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists.
• Contribute to and lead technology communities of practice in areas such as design thinking, agile software development, and security.
• Create and enforce IT standards within the system/application infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• Technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale for internal applicants.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Cloud Technology - AWS, OpenShift.
• Extreme automation mindset related to testing and build/deploy concepts.
• CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Nexus.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development.
• Familiarity with tech stack including Java, Spring, Kafka, Openshift, and Jenkins.

Benefits

• 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