Discover Financial Services - Deerfield, IL

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Remote - Deerfield, IL
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. The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and spend more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. The Principal Application Engineer is responsible for leading the technical design, development, and monitoring for our products. The 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 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 in software engineering and application development
  • Strong knowledge of programming languages and frameworks
  • Experience with cloud technologies and deployment
  • Ability to document technical designs and processes
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with automation tools and practices
  • Familiarity with security best practices in software development
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies
  • Experience in mentoring or coaching other engineers

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Work from home options
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off and holidays
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