Junior Back End Engineer

Junior Back End Engineer *******W2 ONLY******* Location: Riverwoods, IL (ONSITE) Contract: 3 months+ Pay rate: 55+/hr Job Description: As a Back End Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Responsibilities: • Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. • Completes most features and user stories, including test automation unattended • Learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, TDD/BDD, operations, and security • Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities • Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole • Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures • Contributes to technology communities at Discover At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: • Bachelors – Computer Science or related 1+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related Preferred Qualifications: • Experience in Cloud Technologies, preferably AWS Programming language experience in Python. • Experience in more than one language (Java, C#, Node, etc.) and can pick up a new language quickly Strong working knowledge of data structures and algorithms. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkin, Git/GitHub Passionate about high quality standards and test automation practices. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities. • Exceptional customer service and interpersonal skills Superb collaboration and communication Bonus Points If You Have: • Experience with OpenShift Container Platform Experience with contract testing using Pact and/or setting up Pact Broker • Experience with Golang Full stack web applications development experience using React, Node.js Risk management knowledge