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Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack

Aurora, IL

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

Do you enjoy developing highly available, low latent micro-services that interact with large data sets? Are you interested in helping advanced analytics propel the business forward? Are you interested in learning about data sciences libraries like H20 and others?

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If you answered Yes to these questions, you might be a great addition to our team! You'll be working in the Enterprise Decision Technology organization to bring forth solutions for the data science teams to build, integrate and productize real time and batch applications for all product lines including card and bank. You'll be working on a dynamic team who is constantly flexing to meet the needs of the business and next generation cloud technologies.

You'll be an advocate for different technologies within the cloud, preferably AWS, and know when to use certain technologies to efficiently build solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, coach and mentor other software engineers on the best practices providing domain and technical best practice guidance.
  • Write services and unit tests to provide code coverage looking for the code coverage to go up over time.
  • Own the run time performance of your service and code ensuring it's behaving as expected.
  • In a team setting with other DevOps engineers, design and build tools and automation scripts that enable data scientists and business analysts to easily consume cloud-native services.
  • Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and DevOps.
  • Developing secure design patterns for analytics architectures deployed in the public cloud and/or orchestrated container environments using a 'security first' mindset.
  • Build automation to actively audit the infrastructure for misconfigurations.
  • Develop container image lifecycle management systems.
  • Ability to adapt communication for effectiveness with business partners and other technical teams.
  • Coordinate and support the setup of FICO DMP across multiple business areas.
  • Works with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production
  • Creates and maintains devops processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models)
  • Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes; mentors junior team members
  • Develops and maintains complex front-ends with a focus on user experience
  • Develops and maintains backend systems

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field
  • 6+ years of experience in computer science, information technology or related field
  • In lieu of degree, 8+ years of experience in computer science, information technology or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

If we had our say, we'd also look for:
  • Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres and understanding of columnar data stores such as Redshift or Snowflake
  • Strong technical understanding of data architecture, data quality and related technologies
  • Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
  • Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
  • Strong experience working with a relational databaseandNoSQL database
  • Strong experience with CI/CDpipelines with Jenkins or similar;Git/GitHub;Artifactory
  • Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
  • Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
  • Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.
  • Build secure web applications with user authentication


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What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

Job ID: Discover-R2228
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • HSA
    • On-Site Gym
    • Pet Insurance
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses

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