Principal Application Engineer (back End)

Description:

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

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:
Contribute to product team deliverables using Java programming technology

Cloud-based technology experience – AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, OpenShift

Extreme automation mindset as it pertains to testing and build/deploy concepts

CI/CD Pipeline experience via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus

Ability to work closely with a business initiative owners and product owners

Knowledge on Java8, Spring boot API Dev, Spring JDBC, security (AES, JWE, JWS)

Expertise in domain driven design, test automation and capable of forming a deep understanding of our underlying frameworks and languages

Understanding of REST Web Services, JSON and Design Patterns using various technologies

Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, GitHub, and Git Command line is a plus

Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database