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 future you want, here at Discover.

Job Description 

Discover Financial Services have been providing banking and payment services for over 30 years, worldwide. We pride ourselves on giving our customers the best service and experience, having been recognised repeatedly for having the highest scores in customer satisfaction.

Our UK Technology Hub is looking to hire 100 skilled technology professionals to join its growing UK office in the next 12 months.

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.

What You’ll Do

We are seeking a full stack engineer/ developer, primarily focused on the front-end / User Interface development for our new Enterprise Payments Platform (EPP).  This new platform will allow Discover Financial Services payments brands (Discover Network, Diners Club and Pulse) to remain leading influencers in the Payments industry.

The successful candidate will deliver full stack UI solutions across multiple applications using REACT/Angularjs javascript and Java API technology stack.  In conjunction with our UX Product Designers our goal is provide an intuitive user experiences that increases their efficiency. You will also work closely with the Portal Platform Lead to ensure the architectural vision is being followed.

We will support remote working

How You’ll Do It

• Develops and maintains complex front-ends with a focus on user experience.Works with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production.

• Creates and maintains DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models).

• Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes; mentors junior team members.

  Supports live systems to ensure business continuity.

• Provide technical clarity on story development (solutions); identify gaps in requirements for consideration by Product Owners; and to ensure that their team deliver Stories and Defects to their Acceptance Criteria as defined, to support the User Story Definition of Ready and Done.

• Awareness and understanding of their team’s role and deliveries and new feature development.

• Writing technical design documentation as required, such as ECD, ICD, HLD, LLD and work flows.

• Coding of Data components following Quality process including Code Reviews, Sonarqube standards, writing Unit Test (Junit, Mocks), SIT tests, End-to-End Test as appropriate.

• Working with the Platform Leads and other Foundations Tech Leads to ensure the technical solutions align with the Platform Architectural vision Supporting the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in their function of running all features through NFR testing to Production, including defect RCA.

• Future level 3 support, as required, including some out of hours support.

• Provide technical guidance, perform proof of concept  for automation.

• Provide technical guidance to the scrum team.

• Analyze delivery practices, identify areas of improvements, recommend and implement tools and practices for improvements

• Establish a strong partnership with architecture, software engineering/development, quality engineers and DevOps to enabling effective CI/CD delivery model which is scalable and merit quality

• Provide training to Software Development Engineers, Quality engineers and architect on strategies, standards, tools and processes.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

• Demonstrable Lead level experience in a frontend and backend application development environment preferably within Payments domain. Experience of React is essential.

• Self-motivated, Team motivator and Team player

• Applied knowledge of Kanban and Agile Scrum.

• Exposure to modern software development practices including but not restricted to delivering Single page applications, Restful APIs, microservice technology, PaaS, Event Processing,

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team

• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code

• Strong experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory

• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture

• Experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.

• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application

• Build secure web applications with user authentication

• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies

Our Tech Stack

• React, AngularJS, Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, Redux, React Testing Library, Cypress, Test Café, Cross Browser Testing, Protractor, Storybook, NodeJS, Express, Okta, Spring Framework.

• Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus, Rabbit, Gemfire

• PCF, Linux, AWS, VMware

• Restful API’s and microservice architecture

• Cucumber, Java, JUnit

• CI/CD Pipeline Automation using Jenkins

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.

• Strong working knowledge of LAMP stack and at least one PHP framework
• Good HTML, CSS and JavaScript and SASS/SCSS an advantage
• Full stack developers would be ideally suited to this role.

The ideal candidate

• Enthusiastic and committed.
• Ability to write clean and reusable code.
• Cross-browser development and accessibility
• Work on new and legacy systems
• Keen to learn and develop skills, and willingness to embrace change.
• Ability to think independently and work within a team.
• We are happy to accept applications from graduates or people with equivalent work experience.

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 future you 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

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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.

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 future you 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. 

Responsible for the delivery of automated software delivery practices focusing on full automation between the development and production environments. Collaborates with Development, Testing, Architecture and Infrastructure groups to ensure consistency across the enterprise. 

We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic and proactive Lead DevOps Engineer to join us for the next stage of our journey into Extreme Automation. You will help us drastically reduce software cycle time while increasing quality through innovation and engineering best practice.

Responsibilities 

• Partners with Scrum Teams to implement CI/CD pipelines. 
• Works with infrastructure teams to implement fully automated environments. 
• Implements standard automation patterns based on industry best practices. 
• Provides day to day DevOps support to the Scrum and infrastructure teams. 
• Maintains and monitors CI/CD pipelines. 
• Assists and advises delivery teams on git usage and hygiene
• Contributes to inner-sourced Enterprise level DevOps tooling
• Performs new tech POCs

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field 
• Demonstrable years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps or related field 

Preferred Qualifications 

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

• AWS
• Terraform or Cloudformation
• Linux/Shell scripting
• Git (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket)
• Java, Python, Groovy or another modern programming language
• Ansible/Chef/Puppet
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Agile experience

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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.

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 future you want, here at Discover.

Job Description 

Discover is the fastest growing global payments network and we are looking to hire 100 skilled technology professionals to join our growing UK office. We are carrying out cutting-edge work in the areas of cloud, DevOps, agile and automation. Our digital-first mindset and belief in empowering talented people will provide you with a platform to make a difference.

As part of our recruiting efforts, we are looking to hire a number of Site/ Service Reliability Engineers (SRE's) into our UK Technology hub. We will also support remote working.

Service Reliability Engineers (SREs) are a hybrid of systems and software engineers who are responsible for scaling, automation, and production issue support for applications. SRE’s have an intense passion for finding and improving efficiencies with infrastructure, development and deployment automation. As a SRE, you` will lead the efforts of application deployment, reliability, scalability, availability and performance alongside the engineering and infrastructure teams. Site Reliability Engineers will work closely with our Software Development & Engineering teams to build mature, production-ready services and applications. As part of the SRE team, you will help define our standards for monitoring, alerting, scalability, and production-readiness. You will monitor and report on the uptime of our systems and services, the performance of our applications, and the capacity of our platform. 

You will be empowered (yes, empowered) to apply engineering techniques and discipline to production operations and help us deliver the world’s greatest solutions. You will provide feedback into the architecture and application design for each next generation of Payment Services development. If you are the type of person that loves driving technology problem solving sessions; has a tireless passion to increase the performance, resiliency and availability of IT solutions serving the greatest Customers and Partners in the World; we believe our SRE opportunity will allow you to be the superstar of all superstars!

 What You’ll Do

• Handle responsibilities for operational stability and performance of one or more critical business services used by Discover customers and employees.

• Enhance and Maintain complex software components and distributed systems.

• Monitor, Alert, Analyze and Troubleshoot large scale distributed systems

• Define and drive adoption of a best in class monitoring frameworks to accomplish end to end application or service monitoring.

• Work with clustering technologies - High Availability, Resiliency, Reliability and Scaling.

• Monitor and report on SLA/SLO for a given applications services

• Develop & Maintain Dashboards (ELK) - Business and Operational to establish key performance indicators & trends

• Understand the defining and execution of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Sustained Resiliency, Chaos Engineering tests

• Lead and participate in Non-Functional Testing(performance& resilience), identifies the bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization and capacity demands

• Leverage DevOps skills and methodologies - Create and manage a continuous build, integration, test, and deployment systems. Control application code deployment servers and code deployment methods

• Control application log collection and analysis - Automate processes and systems configuration/deployment

• Partner with security engineers and developing plans and automation to aggressively and safely respond to new risks and vulnerabilities

• Design and architect operational solutions for managing applications and infrastructure, with the specific goal of increasing the automation, repeatability, and consistency of operational tasks

• Own Release & Change Management – Includes CAB Representation and Implementation of change and software releases

• Partner & Train the L1 & L1.5 Teams – Including creation and/or enhancement of SOPs, Knowledge Articles etc

• Leverage one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, Go, shell scripting (Unix/Linux), Java

• Analyze and participate in periodic on-call duties to prevent, solve and automate the response to problems on mission critical services

How You’ll Do It

• Operational stability and performance

• Work with other members of their assigned value stream to ensure that in-scope applications/platforms are meeting performance and stability requirements. This includes managing major incidents to mitigation/resolution.

Problem management:

• Perform post-incident reviews of all major incidents and determine action items required to avoid similar issues/minimize downtime for future incidents.

Monitors and metrics:

• Work with Application Development to ensure that assigned applications/platforms have appropriate monitoring and metrics in place to appropriately measure performance and stability.

• Identify functional and non-functional improvements:

• Act as the Operations representative in value stream planning and prioritize sessions to ensure that operational needs of assigned applications/platforms are addressed as needed. Hold quarterly operational performance reviews with value stream management.

Release planning and coordination:

• Work with other members of his/her assigned value stream to ensure that the production releases for their in scope applications/platforms are properly planned and coordinated. This includes Holds Change/Release implementation reviews to ensure thorough and appropriate implementation plans.

• Review and sign-off/approval of change tickets for the assigned value stream

• Represent the value stream at Change Advisory Board Meetings.

• Participate in Program Increment Planning Sessions as a liaison for Operations and Infrastructure support.

• Provide information regarding upcoming critical changes to the value stream.

Operational readiness:

• Ensure that applications/platforms in the value stream are operationally ready for production. This includes Annual Review of all SOPs/knowledge articles.

• Monitor review for any new feature launch or other significant change that may impact monitoring.

• Review SOP/knowledge article for any new feature launch or other significant change that may impact support documentation.

• Train Command Center and Application 1st level Support on new SOPs, knowledge articles, and any other support-related needs.

• Perform monthly capacity analysis of applications/platforms within the value stream. Create and maintain operationally focused ELK dashboards for the value stream.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelor's  degree in business, computer information systems, computer science, MIS, engineering, science, or related field

• Experience in Site or Service Reliability Engineering, DevOps or similar within information technology, or related field

Bonus Points If You Have

• 4+ years of experience in technology, or related field

• 5+ years of coding experience using strongly typed language Java

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or similar role

• 2+ years of experience with scripting languages like Python / Bash

• 2+ years of experience working with Cloud technologies – preferably AWS

• Automation tools experience such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible. Developing monitoring tools and log analysis tools to manage operations

• Familiar with design principles of monitoring and alerting systems

• Understanding of Networking concepts and experience with HTTP protocol

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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.

CharlieFayers@SpectrumIT.co.uk