Application Engineer (Full Stack)

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Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

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As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll build and release reliable software systems at scale. This role is in the Data & Analytics organization where you will be focused on building Discover’s strategic Enterprise Machine Learning Platform. By partnering with enterprise-wide teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Build, evolve and scale the data science technology capabilities to enable our enterprise machine learning platform
• 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
• Enable the latest machine learning tools and frameworks for our Enterprise Data Science Community
• 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
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience in key technologies to be leveraged by the team including Java, Python / PySpark, Spark, CI/CD technologies
• Experience in Machine Learning Platforms and Data Science Technologies
• Experience working with a variety of data platforms such as S3, Snowflake, Redis, Cassandra
• Experience working with containerization and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/Openshift) and cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or others.
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Experience in high availability & scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience building and implementing API service architectures

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $84,500.00 to $142,500.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Education Assistance
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Recognition Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• Paid Time Off
• Family Support Programs
• Commuter Benefits

Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com.

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