Manager Software Engineering

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Responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. 

Develops and coaches' teams to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manages risk within the teams you oversee. 

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 

• 8+ years of experience with Application Development or related 

• In lieu of education, 6+ years Application Development or related 

Preferred Qualifications 

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

• 2+ years experience in People Leadership 

• Deep technical understanding of back-end APIs, Java Spring Boot, OCP, CI/CD

• Mobile experience

• Excellent organizational and communication skills

What are you waiting for? Apply today! 

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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, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover. 

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