Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL
posted about 2 months ago
At Discover, we are committed to fostering a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration are at the forefront. As a Principal Application Engineer within our Card Cycling team, you will play a pivotal role in leading the technical design, development, and monitoring of products that support key card business functions. This position is not just about coding; it’s about making a direct impact on our customers and working in a collaborative agile environment with some of the best talent in the industry. You will be working with a modern tech stack that includes AWS, OCP, Java, Postgres, Restful APIs, and Kafka, among others. In this role, you will be responsible for creating solutions that address high-impact technology and business priorities. You will be the go-to person for many within and outside your team, demonstrating competence across multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and various business domains. Your participation in strategic technology decisions will be crucial, as you will learn how these decisions impact Discover as a whole. Additionally, you will proactively identify and mitigate issues based on your intuition and experience across multiple domains, while also coaching technology communities at Discover. This is a hands-on opportunity with a strong emphasis on automation, resilient design, and the deployment of cloud-ready systems and services. You will collaborate closely with product teams, both internal and external, to provide world-class products and services that support our application development community and the business as a whole.