Application Engineer

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