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:
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.
As a Back End Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
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
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
6+ Years of experience in leading software engineering teams utilizing Agile + BDD/TDD delivery methods.
6+ Years of Java backend programming experience and in-depth experience of multiple Java based applications and platforms
Demonstrates reliability and dependability for your team/area, displays self-awareness, collaboration and ability to improve based on feedback from others.
Experience supporting a product or service provided to a development and/or product community.
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 spaces
You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional.
You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD/CT pipelines and advocacy of DevSecOps culture.
Expected to be technically strong in most of following general areas:
Core Java and Python
Spring framework (core, integration, boot and other libraries)
AWS Cloud - S3, EMR, Lambda
Experience with data pipelining coding techniques that are commonly used in streaming development with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache HDFS, Hadoop stack (Hbase, Storm)
REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Terraform, Cucumber (or similar)
Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
Performance benchmarking and analysis
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-13-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $104,000.00 to $175,600.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
401(k) Plan
Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
Recognition Program
Education Assistance
Commuter Benefits
Family Support Programs
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eeoc.gov/poster__;!!MjXRb4uW6x5k!ABIVgRw0WsyX2wfQC-pKxK3V9X4h1NBUGgjO7EM8PTvp5MNRgpEuVC_jVk0fcn_ISAZjmwkbLuUIrj8mFedCBkyz$)