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Location: Posted: Mar 29, 2022

Job Description

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

  • Responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results.

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    As a Manager, you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within Digital Payments, while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. If you’re a hands-on Servant Leader and technical Subject Matter Expert, keep reading!

    Managers have opportunities to solve challenging and complex technical problems in a direct, hands-on way when capacity allows. At Discover, we celebrate our leader’s role modeling advanced engineering practices as a way to develop both themselves, and their team members.

    If you are an expert in modern engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, Domain Driven Design, Micro services and Cloud engineering , have a passion for flexing your tech skills in solving complex problems and are skilled at developing engineering talent, apply today!

    Job Responsibilities

    • Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and process across the team and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. This includes all performance management aspects of leading the engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews. Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement.
    • Mentor staff of engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly technically competent, consistent, thoughtful and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the group is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team.
    • Lead and shape the technical vision within their domain and be an essential member of leadership team including acting as a leader in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.
    • Engage with internal and external communities of practice to share experiences, contribute knowledge, learn and advocate for the Discover Technology brand. Promotes team innovation and collaboration of ideas across teams.

    Skill and Experience:

    • Experience in an development / architecture role within a payments or similar domain
    • People management skills
    • Effective verbal and written communication skills
    • Self-motivated, Team motivator and Team player
    • Keen awareness of emerging trends in software and quality engineering
    • Belief that empowered individuals make great teammates
    • Applied knowledge of Agile engineering practices

    Our Tech Stack:

    • Java
    • PCF, Linux, VMware, Openshift, AWS
    • CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins, Github Actions, Chef, Ansible, Nexus
    • Testing of Database technologies (Postgres or similar)
    • Full end to end quality tool-set Junit, Cucumber, Jmeter or similar performance testing tool
    • Gemfire or similar caching technology
    • Kafka or similar streaming technology

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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.

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