Manager Software Engineering

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Job Description

Our Digital Payments organization is comprised of autonomous product teams responsible for defining, designing, developing and supporting cloud-based solutions that meet business needs. The teams work in short increments and leverage full automation to rapidly deliver software. We are actively looking for an Engineering Manager and Leader to join our Digital Payments team.

You will be responsible for guiding teams in the implementation of vital Digital Payments solutions from inception to production. The role is very strategic in the growth and technical advancement of our payments platform. This leader will work to ensure their team follows modern technology practices, works to continuously improve and rapidly delivers value.

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.
• Work with key stakeholders to efficiently and effectively allocate team members to product teams to meet business and Product area objectives.
• 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.
• Contribute as an engineer within a product team designing, developing and maintaining quality technology solutions for a product or set of products including developing own subject matter expertise.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Bachelor’s Degree Technology, Business, or related
• Experience with Application Development or related
• In lieu of education, Application Development or related
• 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
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience in People Leadership
  
  

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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