Lead Software Development Engineer - Services

Discover Financial
Nottingham
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Collaboration","Communication","Quality advocacy","Stakeholder influence"]

Lead backend engineering for complex, ambiguous delivery efforts, taking end-to-end ownership of technical design, implementation, and operational considerations. Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ship secure, high-performance services and elevate engineering enablement through reusable best practices, tools, and patterns. Work in a hybrid setup in Nottingham, contributing to APIs and cloud-native development with Java and AWS.

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Discover Financial
Discover Financial
1 month ago

Lead Software Development Engineer - Services

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Job Summary

Lead backend engineering for complex, ambiguous delivery efforts, taking end-to-end ownership of technical design, implementation, and operational considerations. Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ship secure, high-performance services and elevate engineering enablement through reusable best practices, tools, and patterns. Work in a hybrid setup in Nottingham, contributing to APIs and cloud-native development with Java and AWS.
Location: Nottingham
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team or cross-functional squad delivering complex projects that support broader business outcomes.
  • •Own technical design, implementation, and operational considerations end to end.
  • •Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
  • •Elevate engineering enablement by helping establish standardized, sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks.
  • •Focus on delivering a major portion of existing or new team software, innovating within the technical domain.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Pension SchemeAnnual BonusHealth InsuranceParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Proven technical leadership experience, including leading a team or cross-functional squad.
  • •Experience working across backend services and mobile technologies.
  • •Strong programming skills building APIs using modern OO languages (preferably Java) and principles such as SOLID, SOA, HTTP, and REST.
  • •Experience with AWS and cloud-based development.
  • •Extensive knowledge designing secure, high-performing architectures at scale, with ability to deliver high-quality applications using approaches like Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.
Skills:Technical leadershipCollaborationCommunicationQuality advocacyStakeholder influence
Tech Stack:JavaSOLIDSOAHTTPRESTAPIsAWSBackend servicesMobile technologiesTDDBDD

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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