Principal Application Engineer

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Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Machine Learning • Analytics • Financial Services
We power a network that helps people achieve a brighter financial future.
The Role
The Principal Application Engineer at Discover will design and deliver impactful software solutions in the Digital Payments platform. They will actively manage risk, work within an agile scrum team, and use a range of technologies to ensure high-quality software delivery throughout the SDLC. The role involves coaching, strategic decision-making, and proactive issue resolution in a collaborative environment.
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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.
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.
The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and spend more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
This engineer role will be hands-on, working within an agile scrum team you will deliver software solutions from inception to production covering the whole SDLC. The role is very strategic in the growth and technical advancement of the Digital Payments platform at Discover. The software you help build will be consumed directly by Discover card holders at speed and scale.
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


At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

  • Bachelors - Computer Science or related
  • Experience in 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:

  • JavaSE 8 or above development experience
  • Microservices development experience
  • Digital payments experience
  • Have used several testing frameworks such as Junit/Mockito/Gatling
  • SQL/NoSQL
  • RESTful APIs
  • Kafka
  • OpenShift/Kubernetes
  • Helm Charts
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Git


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 Dec-17-2024. 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!
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 & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
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.

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