Application Engineer (Full Stack)

- Mid Level

Riverwoods, IL

About the position

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 Works on more complex, less clearly-defined software projects under limited supervision. Applies a full understanding of established systems software development principles and best practices to analyze complex issues. Updates or modifies working methods in their own role/work area without the benefit of defined procedures. Application Engineers are expected to have a high level of knowledge of domain technologies, platforms and systems software development principles and best practices to independently resolve problems and make major changes to existing processes/systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and 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.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• 2+ years of hands-on Ab Initio, Python, and SQL experience; PostgreSQL knowledge is a bonus.
• Strong experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, or similar; Ab Initio EME; Git/GitHub; Artifactory.
• A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do things manually.
• Foundational understanding of software programming.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration and Delivery processes.
• Experience with microservices, containers, and/or Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with Database Management; Snowflake MPP experience a plus.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scalability) on new and current systems.
• Experience developing, deploying and maintaining large-scale Cloud-native solutions.
• Experience building data pipelines to ingest data into data lake.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan