Principal Application Engineer

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:
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.
What You'll Do
The Principal Application Engineer uses their vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically, does they are dealing with tough parts - e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding.
How You'll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches' technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.
• Design and optimize big data pipelines using Apache Spark, ensuring performance scalability, and reliability
• Architect even-driven systems using AWS Lambda, SQS, and other messaging technologies

Qualifications You'll Need
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors in computer science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology
• Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• For roles requiring Dreyfus Rating - Internal applicants only: technical proficiency of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale.

Preferred Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including Lambda, SQS, CloudFormation/Terraform, and monitoring/logging tools
• Deep understanding of big data frameworks, particularly Apache Spark
• Demonstrated experience architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native systems
• Advanced proficiency in Java and Python

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally. Ability to communicate in written form.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
**Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United Kingdom on a full-time basis.**
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Aug-18-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.