Application Engineer (API)
Duration: Sep 22, 2025 Mar 22, 2027
Location: ONSITE - 2500 Lake Cook Road, Riverwoods Illinois 60015
JOB DESCRIPTION
This Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. This Engineer is skilled in (re)design and identifying ways to maintain & improve our clients' experience. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
This Engineer is responsible for leading the technical design, development and monitoring for our products. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment ways of reducing toil & friction in the way we work.
In our API Management space, this role will apply advanced technical skills around web development, CICD, DevOps, Automation, Security, Support and Operation. You are also someone who is well versed with OpenShift (OCP) and cloud technologies to help continue us to improve in how we operate in a cloud environment via containerized workloads.
Responsibilities
Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
Mentor other engineers, lead design and solutioning discussions
Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
Works directly with business partners to understand business requirements.
Works independently or with own team to innovate on and advocate for best practices within the team.
Develops and maintains full stack solutions to fit business needs. Full stack solutions require one or more of the following: front-end (user interfaces), back-end (APIs), database and devops development.
Evangelize the Enterprise API Strategy and facilitate presentations to a wide audience of internal and external stakeholders
Regular interaction with Product Manager, Product Owner and Product Architect for evolution, API security enhancement and solutioning.
Support, engineer and build activities for Portal, Gateway and API Lifecycle engineering teams and overall direct responsibility for health of the platforms.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Must Have
10+ Years Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Detailed knowledge of REST concepts, JSON, JSON Schema, the Swagger JSON REST specification, the protocol and status codes.
Experience developing and implementing API security & service architecture
Experience in PHP, Drupal Design and Development
Experience in supporting /delivering Developer Center portals
Experience with modern software development processes (Agile, Scrum etc.) within a large enterprise environment
Experience working in a cloud environment, preferably AWS.
Modern SDLC concepts and tools such as JIRA, Rally, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, etc.
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