Full-Time

Application Engineer

Updated on 3/14/2025

Discover

Discover

10,001+ employees

No salary listed

Junior, Mid

No H1B Sponsorship

Aldershot, UK

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis.

Category
Backend Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • Bachelors – Computer Science or related
  • Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Responsibilities
  • Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
  • Helps to junior engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of junior engineers, and helps them continue to grow
  • Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
  • Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
  • Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
  • Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
  • Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology
  • You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional.
  • You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.
  • Core Java
  • Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)
  • Microservices
  • Openshift and Kubernetes
  • AWS Cloud
  • REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
  • Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
  • UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Riverwoods, Illinois

Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • In-car commerce market projected to reach $86 billion by 2025.
  • Click to Pay expansion offers streamlined, secure shopping in multiple countries.
  • Support for Black-owned restaurants boosts brand image and customer loyalty.

What critics are saying

  • Capital One acquisition may cause instability in Discover's corporate strategy.
  • In-car commerce partnership exposes Discover to technological and adoption challenges.
  • Click to Pay expansion increases competition, pressuring Discover to innovate rapidly.

What makes Discover unique

  • Discover's partnership with Car IQ leads in the emerging in-car commerce market.
  • Global expansion of Click to Pay enhances Discover's digital checkout capabilities.
  • $5M initiative for Black-owned restaurants strengthens Discover's community engagement.

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Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Family Support Programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Company News

Capital One
Feb 21st, 2024
Capital One to Acquire Discover | Capital One Financial Corp.

Under the terms of the agreement, Discover shareholders will receive 1.0192 Capital One shares for each Discover share, representing a premium of 26.6% based on Discover's closing price of $110.49 on February 16, 2024 . Transaction is 100% stock consideration.

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Nov 19th, 2020
PayPal Customers Can Now Fundraise Up To $20K

PayPal has rolled out new enhancements to its Giving platform as a way to boost crowdfunding and charity donations, a press release says.

PYMNTS
Oct 2nd, 2020
The Rise Of eCommerce And Digital Banking Innovations

Car IQ has teamed with Discover to accelerate automotive banking, and Banking-as-a-Service is making it simpler for companies and FinTechs to manage data.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Today In Retail News: Car IQ Teams With Discover On In-Car Banking; Walmart Unveils New Store Design

In today's top retail news, Car IQ teams with Discover on in-car banking and Walmart unveils a new store design.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking

By 2025, it is estimated that $86 billion will be spent on in-car commerce. That number assumes that human beings would be the ones giving the commands. But what if humans were removed from the in-car Commerce process – just as they have been removed from the autonomous driving process?