Lead Software Development Engineer - Services

Discover Financial
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Collaboration","Communication","Quality advocacy","Team enablement"]

Lead a backend engineering team or cross-functional squad delivering complex, ambiguous projects in support of business outcomes. Own end-to-end technical design, implementation, and operational considerations, collaborating with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders. Drive secure, scalable API and service development using modern OO practices (e.g., Java), AWS, and cloud architecture. Elevate engineering enablement by sharing sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks across the engineering community.

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Discover Financial
Discover Financial
1 month ago

Lead Software Development Engineer - Services

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Job Summary

Lead a backend engineering team or cross-functional squad delivering complex, ambiguous projects in support of business outcomes. Own end-to-end technical design, implementation, and operational considerations, collaborating with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders. Drive secure, scalable API and service development using modern OO practices (e.g., Java), AWS, and cloud architecture. Elevate engineering enablement by sharing sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks across the engineering community.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team or cross-functional squad delivering complex and ambiguous projects supporting broader business outcomes.
  • •Own end-to-end technical design, implementation, and operational considerations.
  • •Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
  • •Support elevation of engineering enablement, excellence, and experience across the engineering community.
  • •Contribute to development and dissemination of standardized, sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:PensionAnnual BonusPrivate MedicalParental LeaveSeason-ticket Loans

Key Requirements

  • •Proven technical leadership experience, including leading a team or cross-functional squad.
  • •Proven backend services experience and experience with mobile technologies.
  • •Exceptional programming skills, including building APIs using modern OO languages such as Java and principles like SOLID, SOA, HTTP, and REST.
  • •Strong experience with AWS and secure, scalable cloud-based architectures.
  • •Advocate for engineering quality and experience using approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.
Experience:Backend servicesMobile technologiesCloudAPIsBankingPublic cloud
Skills:Technical leadershipCollaborationCommunicationQuality advocacyTeam enablement
Tech Stack:JavaSOLIDSOAHTTPRESTAPIsAWS

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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