Principal Application Engineer (Full Stack)

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:
*** 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. ***
As a Principal Full Stack Application Engineer, you'll build and release reliable software systems at scale. By partnering with enterprise-wide) teams, you'll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You'll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you'll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. 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
• 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:

• Technical leadership experience
• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
• Experience working in Payments Technology, ISO8583 standards
• Competent & confident in multiple programming language types - scripting, OO, functional.
• Hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.
• Core Java
• Spring framework
• Microservices
• Openshift and Kubernetes
• AWS Cloud
• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
• Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling
• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
• Ability to work with multiple timezones

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.
Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Aug-24-2024. 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!
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