What You’ll Do

Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions that meet business needs.

Works on more complex, less clearly-defined software projects under limited supervision. Applies a full understanding of established systems software development principles and best practices to analyze complex issues. Updates or modifies working methods in their own role/work area without the benefit of defined procedures.

Application Engineers are expected to have a high level of knowledge of domain technologies, platforms and systems software development principles and best practices to independently resolve problems and make major changes to existing processes/systems.

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production.  Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture 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 to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering or related
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical And Cognitive Responsibilities

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in Connex switch development and maintenance
• At least 2 years of Tandem HP-NonStop development experience, including Application UI, workflows, notifications, SLAs and Service Catalog forms
• Experience with design, development, deployment, and maintenance of software using TAL, pTAL, COBOL and Pathways
• Ability to build or modify scripts using TACL and ENFORM
• Experience with processing debit card payments
• Good understanding of ISO8583 message format
• Experience in using Paragon, C2P or similar testing tools
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Advanced oral, written and presentation communications including the ability to present technical information in a way that non-technical audiences will understand
• Experience with multiple ServiceNow platform products desired
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.