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Principal Application Engineer (Back End)
Principal Application Engineer (Back End)-March 2024
Farnborough
Mar 28, 2026
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About Principal 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

  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

  Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

  Experience in leading software engineers utilizing Agile + BDD/TDD delivery methods.

  Java backend programming experience and in-depth experience of multiple Java based applications and platforms

  Demonstrates reliability and dependability for your team/area, displays self-awareness, collaboration and ability to improve based on feedback from others.

  Experience supporting a product or service provided to a development and/or product community.

  Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient 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 spaces

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

  You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD/CT pipelines and advocacy of DevSecOps culture.

  Expected to be technically strong in most of following general areas:

  Core Java and Python

  Spring framework (core, integration, boot and other libraries)

  AWS Cloud - S3, EMR, Lambda

  Experience with data pipelining coding techniques that are commonly used in streaming development with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache HDFS, Hadoop stack (Hbase, Storm)

  REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing

  UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)

  Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Terraform, Cucumber (or similar)

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

  Performance benchmarking and analysis

  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-18-2023. 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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