Application Engineer

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

The Application Engineer is responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team.  You will take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.  You will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product 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.
• Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Minium Requirements
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related
• Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• For roles requiring Dreyfus Rating – Internal applicants only: technical proficiency of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• 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.

Preferred Requirements

Bonus Points If You Have

• Strong hands-on technical lead with programming languages like Java and Python services and building highly available environment using proper design patterns
• Proven experience in software development methodologies
• Strong analytical skills and ability to multi-task
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Strong hands-on experience and understanding of working in a cloud environment such as AWS
• Experience with EMR (Elastic Map Reduce), Spark
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
• Experience with the following technologies: SpringBoot, Gradle, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub/GitFlow, PCF/OCP/Kubernetes technologies, Artifactory, IaC
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD, Cucumber test framework)
• Experience writing unit and service level tests to ensure adequate code coverage (JUnits)
• Drools
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
• Experience in working with a relational database
• Experience provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to be able to partner with business stakeholders and other technical teams
• AWS and Java Certifications

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 Kingdom on a full-time basis.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-19-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights)

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email [email protected]. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.