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
As a backend Principal Application Engineer, you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. 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.
Responsibilities
Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains
Coaches technology communities at Discover
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related
6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Previous experience as a data engineer or in a similar role.
- Knowledge of data processing programming languages like Python, PySpark, JavaScript, Scala, SQL.
- Technical expertise with data models and data segmentation techniques.
- Experience working with Ab-initio (GDE, Express>It), Informatica or similar data processing ETL tools.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake.
- Experience working on Linux/Unix environment including shell scripting.
- Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory.
- Experience in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring.
- Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
- Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies.
- Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies.
- Experience building secure web applications with user authentication.
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.