Principal Application Engineer (Backend)

What You’ll Do

The Cloud Data Enablement team is looking for a Principal Application Engineer who is passionate about building products that help Discover achieve the next level of growth in Data Analytics. An engineer in this role develops and maintains backend solutions to fit business needs. This requires back-end (APIs), and database development. As the lead engineer, you will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of reliable infrastructure services on AWS.

An engineer in this role works independently or with the team to innovate and advocate for best practices within the team. Primary responsibilities include working with the product team to architect complex solutions across large cross-functional enterprise teams, troubleshooting production issues, designing complex solutions and delivering code from development through production, updating/enhancing current products, automation of support processes and documentation.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the user experience.

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, Information Technology, or related.
• 6+ years of experience, in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related.
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical Requirements

Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing? Primarily remain in a stationary position.

Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job? No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? If so, provide the weight of the heaviest object the job needs to transport without the aid of machinery or equipment or the weight equivalency with the aid of machinery or equipment. No

Primarily, where is this job performed? Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Select all that apply. Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Select all that apply. Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Does the job require travel? No

Please provide other physical requirements not included in the previous questions.

Mental Requirements

Does this role require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job?  No

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, reliability and scalability) on new and current systems.
• Experience developing, deploying and maintaining large-scale Cloud-native solutions.
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture 
• Experience in Python FastAPI, Flask framework.
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
• Build secure web applications with user authentication
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Hands on experience with AWS services
• Experience building data pipelines to ingest data into data lake.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team 
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code 
• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database 
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory, OpenShift, Docker
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring 
• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis. 
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake   
• Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies

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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