Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
Riverwoods, 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. As a Senior Associate Application Engineer (Full-Stack), you'll build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide teams, you'll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You'll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you'll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. You will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues to management day-to-day. In this role, you will complete most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended. You will learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, operations, and security. You will contribute to agile ceremonies, lead demos and presentations, help new engineers learn established norms, and participate in technology communities. Additionally, you will participate in system design decisions and learn how these decisions impact the product as a whole. You will also learn to support production systems and understand how observed events and failures impact the product.

Responsibilities

  • Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended
  • Learns complex software engineering practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, operations, and security
  • Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities
  • Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole
  • Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 1+ years of experience in Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advanced beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Nice-to-haves

  • Building applications using Java, SpringBoot, cloud/container technologies, including PCF, AWS, and OCP
  • Experience with Microservices and REST APIs
  • Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar
  • Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
  • Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
  • Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit/Gatling/Cucumber
  • Using Database Management Systems, including Oracle, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL

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
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