Application Engineer (Full Stack)

$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 involves overseeing the design and implementation of products within a team at Discover, a leading digital banking and payments company. The role requires the ability to take user stories and new features from concept to production independently, while actively managing risks and customer-impacting issues. The candidate will also mentor early-career engineers and ensure high-quality delivery of software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality to production.
• Guide early-career engineers by providing learning tasks and directing their work.
• Oversee application, system, and architecture design decisions for assigned products.
• Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions.
• Achieve team commitments through collaboration with engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists.
• Contribute to and lead technology communities of practice in 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 as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
• Experience with ReactJS, Redux, and Frontend application frameworks.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles and ability to write clean code.

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