Application Engineer (Front End)

Discover Financial Services; Riverwoods (IL); Remote; USD 89,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where you will engage in meaningful work from Day 1. This role offers the opportunity to oversee product design and implementation, guiding emerging talent while ensuring high-quality deployments. Collaborate with a diverse team to create innovative solutions that impact millions of customers' financial futures. With a strong emphasis on mentorship and professional growth, you will thrive in a supportive environment that values your unique contributions. If you're ready to make a difference in the digital banking and payments landscape, this position is your chance to shine.

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in IT or Software Engineering.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and implementation of products from idea to production.
• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and features.

Skills

Software Development Lifecycle

Critical Thinking

Mentorship

Agile Methodologies

Object-Oriented Principles

Clean Code Writing

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Bachelor's in Engineering

Bachelor's in Information Technology

Tools

React Native

Java

Spring Boot

Redux

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

• Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work-related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
• Has oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
• Achieves team commitments (and influences others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners, and data scientists.
• Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture, and/or data.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related.
• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related.
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent 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 and in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
• Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code.
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies.

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 States on a full-time basis.

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Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-13-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation: The base pay for this position generally ranges between $89,000.00 to $150,200.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits: We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.

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 [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.