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Application Engineer (Back End)-October 2024
Farnborough
Oct 27, 2025
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10,000+ employees
Financial Services
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About Application Engineer (Back End)

  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 Back End Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code. 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

  Minimum Qualifications

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

  Bachelors – Computer Science or related

  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 in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization

  Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology

  You are competent & confident in multiple programming language types – scripting, OO, functional.

  You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and advocacy of you build you run it culture.

  Core Java

  Spring framework (core, integration, boot, webflux, etc...)

  Microservices

  Openshift and Kubernetes

  AWS Cloud

  REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing

  UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)

  Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Cucumber, Junit, Gatling

  Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]

  PostgreSql database

  External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

  And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.

  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) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eeoc.gov/poster__;!!MjXRb4uW6x5k!ABIVgRw0WsyX2wfQC-pKxK3V9X4h1NBUGgjO7EM8PTvp5MNRgpEuVC_jVk0fcn_ISAZjmwkbLuUIrj8mFedCBkyz$)

  Application Deadline:

  The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Dec-20-2023. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

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