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Discover Application Engineer (Full Stack) in Riverwoods, Illinois

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:

As a Full Stack Engineer, you ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. This role is in the Decisions & Analytics (DNA) organization where you will be focused on building Discover’s strategic Enterprise Machine Learning Platform. 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

  • Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production

  • Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow

  • Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills

  • Has an oversight on 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

  • Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.

  • 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.

Minimum Qualifications

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

  • Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related

  • 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

  • Experience working with containerization and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/Openshift) and cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or others.

  • Experience in key technologies to be leveraged by the team including Java, Python / PySpark, Spark, CI/CD technologies

  • Experience in Machine Learning Platforms and Data Science Technologies

  • Experience working with a variety of data platforms such as S3, Snowflake, Redis, Cassandra

  • Experience building and implementing API service architectures

  • Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

  • Experience in high availability & scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

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 May-06-2024. 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 $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. 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) (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters)

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 HireAccommodation@discover.com . 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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