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 Manager, Application Engineering, you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within Payments, while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. If you’re a hands-on Servant Leader and technical Subject Matter Expert, keep reading! Managers have opportunities to solve challenging and complex technical problems in a direct, hands-on way when capacity allows. At Discover, we celebrate our leader’s role modeling advanced engineering practices to develop both themselves, and their team members. If you are an expert in modern engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, Domain Driven Design, Microservices and Cloud engineering, have a passion for flexing your tech skills in solving complex problems and are skilled at developing engineering talent, apply today!

　　Job Responsibilities

　　Mentor and lead a staff of engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly technically competent, consistent, thoughtful, and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the group is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team.

　　Leads and utilizes highly technical skills to contribute as an engineer within a product team designing, developing code, and maintaining quality technology solutions for a product or set of products including developing own subject matter expertise. Demonstrated experience in multiple software languages, modern software methods, CI/CD, cloud, and automated testing.

　　Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and processes across the team and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. This includes all performance management aspects of leading engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews. Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement.

　　Lead and shape the technical vision within their product team and be an essential member of leadership team including acting as a leader in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.

　　Work with key stakeholders to efficiently and effectively allocate team members to product teams to meet business and Product area objectives.

　　Engage with internal and external communities of practice to share experiences, contribute knowledge, learn and advocate for the Discover Technology brand. Promotes team innovation and collaboration of ideas across teams.

　　Minimum Qualifications

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

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related

　　6+ years of experience with Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　If we had our say, we’d also look for:

　　Experience in a hands-on development / architecture role

　　2+ years of people leadership

　　Effective verbal and written communication skills

　　Self-motivated, Team motivator and Team player

　　Keen awareness of emerging trends in software, quality, and reliability engineering

　　Belief that empowered individuals make great teammates.

　　Applied knowledge of Agile engineering practices

　　Our Tech Stack:

　　Java, Spring / Spring Boot, React

　　Openshift, AWS, Kubernetes

　　Database technologies (Postgres, Redis or similar)

　　CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins, Github, Chef, Ansible, Nexus, Sonarqube

　　Full end to end quality tool-set JUnit, Cucumber, JMeter or similar performance testing tools

　　Kafka or similar streaming technology

　　Monitoring tool Instana, AppD or similar

　　Knowledge of Linux commands & Oracle DB

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　　Application Deadline:

　　The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-24-2024. 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 $104,000.00 to $175,600.00. 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) (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eeoc.gov/poster__;!!MjXRb4uW6x5k!ABIVgRw0WsyX2wfQC-pKxK3V9X4h1NBUGgjO7EM8PTvp5MNRgpEuVC_jVk0fcn_ISAZjmwkbLuUIrj8mFedCBkyz$)