Lead Software Developer

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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 Discover, you’ll have the chance to make a difference at one of the world’s leading digital banking and payments companies. From Day 1, you’ll do meaningful work you’re passionate about, with the support and resources you need for success. We value what makes each employee unique and provide a collaborative, team-based culture that gives everyone an opportunity to shine. Be the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future, while building the futureyou want, here at Discover.

Job Description

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

We embrace change and evolution, both in our staff and systems. We are building new payment systems that allows us to utilise modern technologies (Cloud, Big Data, Open Source, Event driven real time processing) and approaches to delivery (Scaled Agile, CI/CD, TDD + BDD) that will enable us to produce software and systems to support our business and adapt to change within the fast paced FinTech world.

We want you to love where you work and thrive in your career. Our culture inspires innovation, teamwork, and growth, so we can make a positive impact on millions of people’s lives.

We are looking for multiple experienced Lead Software Developers in the UK. The successful candidate(s) will be primarily focused on supporting and guiding the team during all phases of the development life cycle to design, develop and maintain scalable performant enterprise payments solutions to fit business needs. Our enterprise payments solutions consist of one or more of the following: batch processing, real time data/event streaming, APIs, micro services, NoSQL or relational databases and underpinned by DevOps automation. You will be working directly with business partners to understand business requirements then collaboratively design solutions and lead them from inception to production within the agile team.

What You’ll Do

As part of our technology domain, you’ll:

• Lead Agile-focused software development teams to help our organization drive towards emerging technologies. While primarily providing hands-on development work, you’ll also mentor junior-level software developers.
• Leverage your leadership skills to help shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.
• Create and break-down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plans.
• Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest industry technologies to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones.
• Provides specialised expertise and applied knowledge on all aspects of Data Services to support a new and consolidated set of cross network applications.
  

How You’ll Do It

• Develops solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity as highly skilled with extensive proficiency
• Java JEE coding, unit testing, system testing and development work for data services applications
• In depth Spark development experience with the ability to provide technical direction to more junior developers as well as assist with planning and design of components.
• Knows and uses fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures to solve problems within primary field of expertise
• Capable of independent working with minimal supervision
• Writing Technical design documentation (high and low level) as required
• Refers to policies and practices for guidance.
• Wide latitude for independent judgment and decision making.
• Ensure quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing.
• Perform technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.
• Deliver technology solutions that support business goals.
• Partner with product owners to understand business requirements, evaluate features, and translate application specifications into workable technical solutions.
• Support technical initiatives and provide team with input into best practices.
• Oversee and review development activities of highly-complex global teams, consisting of both full-time staff and contractors.
• Maintain application software and systems.
• Test and mitigate risks for all projects and releases
• Provide leadership and guidance to junior-level software developers to enhance their growth and help them achieve objectives.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, or related field or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field i.e. Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Demonstrable years of experience as a Lead Software Developer with Java applications.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering or related field i.e. Computer Science or Information Technology
• In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of software developer/engineering experience with Java applications
• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
• Time spent working for an organization in either the financial services or technology space
• Self-motivated, Team motivator and Team player
• Awareness of emerging trends in software engineering
• Relevant experience of agile technology teams with applied knowledge of Kanban, Agile Scrum and SAFe
• Hands on coding experience with Java, Python, or another modern language.
• Exposure to modern software development practices and technology stack (see tech stack list below)
• Identify and propose improvements for quality deliverables
• Demonstrates reliability and dependability for the team, displays self-awareness, collaboration and ability to improve based on feedback from others.
• Agile Experience, Jenkins and Chef Experience beneficial.
• Experience with data pipelineing coding techniques that are commonly used in streaming development.
• Experience of developing and implementing business critical projects of large scope and technical complexity.
• Possess the judgement to plan and accomplish goals with minimal supervision.
• Clear and effective written and verbal English with the ability to prepare and communicate high level application designs and concepts to management and peers.

Our Tech Stack

• Java
• Spring Framework (Boot)
• React, AngularJS, Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, Redux, React Testing Library, Cypress, Test Café, Cross Browser Testing, Protractor, Storybook, NodeJS, Express, Okta
• Git/GitHub, Nexus
• Junit, Mockito, Assertj, Wiremock, Cucumber
• Jenkins, Gradle, Ansible and Groovy
• PCF, OCP, Linux, VMware
• Restful API’s and microservice architecture
• MariaDB, Postgres
• Apache Geode (GemFire), Redis
• Apache Storm, Kafka, HBase (Highly Available variant)
• Spark-Streaming
• HDFS native API and shell commands
• UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
• IntelliJ, Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite (STS)
• JSON processing and validation
  

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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.