Java Engineer

Role: Java Application Engineer

Location: Riverwoods, Chicago IL

Mode: Hybrid - 3 days a week from office

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality
• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship
• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions. Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists. Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or similar with 6 years of Software engineering experience

Experience:

• 4 years Building applications using Java, SpringBoot, cloud/container technologies, including PCF, AWS, and OCP, Microservices, and REST APIs.
• Good Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar.
• 4 years of experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
• Good understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code.
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies and use of frameworks such as Junit/Gatling/Cucumber etc.
• Using Database Management Systems, including Oracle,
• Experience with React Native (or React JS), Redux, and Frontend application frameworks would be nice
• Experience with payment networks or digital payments solution such as digital wallets would be nice