Discover Financial Services, Inc.
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
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.
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)
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.Join us and you can expect a whole lot of rewards. From Health and insurance to on-site fitness centers, there’s everything you need to thrive – in and out of work.
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