Application Engineer (DevOps)

$86,500 - $146,100/Yr

Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
Riverwoods, IL
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About the position

At Discover, we foster a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration are at the forefront. As an Application Engineer, you will play a crucial role in analyzing, developing, and designing solutions for our application software. You will work in an Agile environment, where your responsibilities will include performing technical design, coding with test automation, and supporting and documenting software application modifications. Your contributions will ensure that we deliver high-quality code through continuous integration, development, and testing. In this role, you will actively manage and escalate risks and customer-impacting issues to management, ensuring that our applications meet the highest standards of security, reliability, and operational efficiency. You will also have the opportunity to mentor Associate Application Engineers, providing them with learning tasks and directing their work to help them grow in their careers. Your informal leadership and communication skills will be essential in achieving team commitments and influencing others to do the same. You will oversee design decisions and guide your team to achieve key results for the products assigned to you. Additionally, you will be responsible for remediating issues using engineering principles and creating proactive design solutions for potential failures. Your involvement in technology communities at Discover will further enhance your professional development and contribute to our collective success.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality to production.
  • Provide learning tasks and direct the work of Associate Application Engineers and Senior Associate Application Engineers.
  • Achieve team commitments and influence others using informal leadership and communication skills.
  • Oversee design decisions and guide the team to achieve key results for assigned products.
  • Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures.
  • Contribute to and lead technology communities at Discover.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

  • Background in DevOps and software development as a hands-on engineer.
  • Excellent understanding of application delivery, DevOps, and SDLC.
  • Strong ability to track and contribute to technical discussions around application integration and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into appropriate technical stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Exposure to distributed compute solutions deployment practices.

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
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