Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack
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Job Description
Develops and maintains full stack solutions to fit business needs. Full stack solutions require one or more of the following: front-end (user interfaces), back-end (APIs), database and DevOps development. Works directly with business partners to understand business requirements. Works independently or with own team to innovate on and advocate for best practices within the team. Designs complex solutions and leads them from inception to production within the agile team and collaborates on them across the enterprise, carries a holistic view of all products and their interactions to design complex solutions and plan for how new projects will fit into the larger ecosystem. Solves complex technical problems. Designs and develops solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions. Lead technical efforts and liaise with the vendor to support, integrate, and maintain test automation tools.
Delivers technology solutions that support our business goals. Partners with management, architects, and product owners to understand requirements, evaluating the features to prepare applications specifications into workable technical solutions. Enhances Operating Model by demonstrating a high-level of initiative, ability to work with all levels of management and within a scrum team as a senior technical leader/developer. Assists with the growth of others on the team within a challenging environment while promoting DFS cultural behaviors and technical proficiencies based on our latest standards and strategies. Actively contribute to the department's developer community to support technical initiatives and provide input into best practices. Maintains highly available systems. Ensures all projects and releases are appropriately tested and risks are mitigated.
Major Responsibilities:
- Develops and maintains complex front-ends with a focus on user experience.
- Develops and maintains backend systems
- Works with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production
- Creates and maintains DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models)
- Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes, mentors junior team members
- Supports live systems to ensure business continuity
- Work with Tableau, INETCO, Splunk & other BI-tools
- Good Knowledge of INETCO Manager and Alerting consoles
- Understanding of RDBMS as data will be stored in RDBMS- Inetco Insight DB
- Ability to understand and support ISO 8583- message structure; Visa/MC- message format knowledge. Independently research and troubleshoot ISO 8583 formatted payments transactions
- Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
- Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
- Windows server knowledge (good to have)
- Adjusts network sizes to meet volume or capacity demands.
- Communicates with customers and the business to determine customer needs.
- Communicates with system users to ensure accounts are set up properly. Diagnoses and resolves operational issues.
- Coordinates network operations, maintenance, repairs, and upgrades. Consults with management in the analysis of short- and long-range business requirements and recommends innovations.
- Partner with the business and technology teams to plan and execute projects, design technical specifications, and ensure direction and resources to deliver high quality products and services.
- Promote a risk aware culture within the team to ensure efficient and effective risk compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes that support the DFS approach to audit and compliance.
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
Creates and maintains Devops processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models)
- Supports live systems to ensure business continuity.
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
Qualifications You’ll Need
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor information technology
- 6+ years of experience in Computer Science, Information Technology or related
- In lieu of degree, 8+ years of experience in Computer Science, Information Technology or related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- Proven track record of delivering quality in an Agile environment
- Proven track record of turning concepts and ideas into tangible solutions
- Self-motivated, Commercial understanding of the Payments domain
- Strong knowledge and understanding of emerging trends in software engineering
- Experience in supporting software solutions in a production environment
- Proven commercial experience engaging third party vendors
- Experience with FIS Connex software
- Experience with HPE NonStop servers
- Experience in creating best in class testing and production infrastructure
- Credible understanding of the technology stack
- Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- Modern web-development frameworks (Angular, React, Foundation, Bootstrap, jQuery)
- HTML, CSS, DOM, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON
- Web browser & Cross device compatibility design
- Java, J2EE, APIs, Microservices
- CI/CD with Jenkins or similar, Chef, Git/GitHub, Gradle, Nexus, SonarQube
- Cloud/PaaS Architectures: Cloud Foundry(PCF), AWS
- Container solutions: Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift
- Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
- Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
- Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
- Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
- Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
- Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
- Build secure web applications with user authentication
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies #LI-BG1 #Remote #BI-Remote
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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.