Principal Software Engineering Lead

7 days ago


Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom Discover Full time

Job Summary

As a Principal Application Engineer at Discover, you will be a key member of our agile delivery teams, responsible for refining and testing requirements, building automated regression test suites, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality applications into production. You will actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Create solutions addressing high-impact technology and business priorities.
  • Be competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains, and serve as a go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team).
  • Participate in strategic technology decisions and learn how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains.
  • Coach technology communities at Discover.

Minimum Qualifications

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

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

  • Nonfunctional testing experience.
  • Test-first mindset.
  • Experience in digital payments.
  • Experience working with code quality tools.
  • Confident in ensuring all code works well, is fully tested, and meets requirements.
  • Working alongside team members to ensure all test scenarios are fully accounted for and considered.
  • Experience in setting best practices, standards, and guidelines.
  • SQL/NoSQL/SpringData.
  • RESTful APIs.
  • Kafka.
  • OpenShift/Kubernetes.
  • Helm Charts.
  • AWS.
  • Jenkins.
  • Git.

About Discover

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.



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