Application Engineer

Discover; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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 an Application 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:

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Help junior engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work-related tasks, direct the work of junior engineers, and help them continue to grow
• Achieve team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
• Have oversight on design decisions and guide the team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediate issues using engineering principles and create proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Contribute to and lead technology communities at Discover

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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
• Competence & confidence in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional
• Hands-on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of a you build you run it culture
• Core Java
• Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)
• Microservices
• Openshift and Kubernetes
• AWS Cloud
• REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
• Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting) Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-20-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contributes 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.

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 [e-mail]. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.