Principal Application Engineer

Discover Financial Services; Farnborough; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading digital banking and payments company as a Software Engineer. You will deliver impactful software solutions, manage risks, and coach teams in technology. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor's degree and experience in software engineering. Enjoy a collaborative culture and significant growth opportunities.

Benefits

Health Insurance

On-site Fitness Centers

Qualifications

• Experience in Information Technology or Software Engineering.
• Proficient technical skills as per the Dreyfus Engineering scale.

Responsibilities

• Delivers high impact software solutions and manages risks.
• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities.

Skills

Software Engineering

Problem Solving

Agile Development

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Java

Spring Framework

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

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:

What You’ll Do

• Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically does the tough parts – e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology or related
• Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient on the Dreyfus Engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:
Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Strong hands-on technical lead/Staff or Senior engineer with experience in Java 17-21 and Latest Spring Framework (SpringBoot, Spring Batch, Spring Integration)
• Good understanding of Architecture and System Design with experience working with relational/non-relational databases
• Understanding Software security and Compliance to ensure protection of Data & systems
• Experience in Delivering, building complex applications Frontend and Backend / Event driven publishing solutions
• Experience of working in an agile development environment
• Experience in DevOps and build tools using Jenkins CI/CD, Gradle, Github, Nexus and SonarQube and other code coverage tools.
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience with TDD/BDD and understands usage of SonarIQ/Nexus for code quality evaluations
• Understanding of working in a cloud environment such as AWS/OCP

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-15-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

About This Role

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:

What You’ll Do

• Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically does the tough parts – e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology or related
• Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient on the Dreyfus Engineering scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:
Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Strong hands-on technical lead/Staff or Senior engineer with experience in Java 17-21 and Latest Spring Framework (SpringBoot, Spring Batch, Spring Integration)
• Good understanding of Architecture and System Design with experience working with relational/non-relational databases
• Understanding Software security and Compliance to ensure protection of Data & systems
• Experience in Delivering, building complex applications Frontend and Backend / Event driven publishing solutions
• Experience of working in an agile development environment
• Experience in DevOps and build tools using Jenkins CI/CD, Gradle, Github, Nexus and SonarQube and other code coverage tools.
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience with TDD/BDD and understands usage of SonarIQ/Nexus for code quality evaluations
• Understanding of working in a cloud environment such as AWS/OCP

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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.

#LI-AM2

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-15-2025. 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 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)

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.

Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.

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