Discover Financial Services - Deerfield, IL

posted about 2 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Remote - Deerfield, IL
5,001-10,000 employees
Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. As a part of the Card Cycling team, the Principal Application Engineer will be leading the technical design, development, and monitoring for products supporting key card business functions. At the heart of the card business, the candidate will have a direct impact on our customers and work in a collaborative agile environment with great talent. If you join our team, you will be working with a modern tech stack including AWS, OCP, Java, Postgres, Restful APIs, and Kafka, just to name a few. The Principal Application Engineer is responsible for leading the technical design, development, and monitoring for our products. This role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design, and deployment of cloud-ready systems and services. This role collaborates with Product teams, both internal and external, to provide world-class products and services in support of our application development community and our business as a whole.

Responsibilities

  • Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
  • Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
  • Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
  • Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains
  • Coaches' technology communities at Discover

Requirements

  • Experience with AWS, OCP, Java, Postgres, Restful APIs, and Kafka
  • Strong background in technical design and development
  • Proven experience in automation and resilient design
  • Ability to work in a collaborative agile environment
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to coach others

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in leading technical teams
  • Familiarity with financial services industry
  • Knowledge of security best practices

Benefits

  • Work from home option
  • Diversity and inclusion programs
  • Employee-focused culture
  • Career development opportunities
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