Application Engineer

$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 reliability of technical solutions through proactive design and collaboration with various stakeholders.

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 critically.
• Guide early-career engineers by providing learning tasks and mentorship.
• 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, or information technology.
• 3+ years 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 Java development on client-facing applications.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles and ability to write clean code.
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design.
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.

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