Application Engineer

What You’ll Do:

As an Application Engineer with Discover’s SCRA team, you will work with business partners and engineering teams to build, maintain, and scale specialized product offerings for US veterans and active-duty servicepeople. Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through, but has their driver's license. 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, 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

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics:

• Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology

• 3+ years experience 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.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• 4+ years of experience in Java

• 2+ experience with front end development

• Experience with Open Shift (OCP) or Kubernetes is a plus.

• Experience with react is a plus

• Experience in BPM-related technology (i.e. Activiti, IBM BAW), including process design and mapping, process development with BPM APIs, process monitoring.

• Experience in Rest API, CSS, Ajax services, Spring Framework, Angular/React, NodeJs, and other JavaScript technologies.

• Experience in DevOps and build tools using Jenkins, Gradle, Github., Nexus and SonarQube and other code coverage tools.

• Good knowledge with Agile, Scrum methodology.

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.