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At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

The Lead Programmer, WFM will be responsible for translating business requirements in to technical solutions leveraging WFM system APIs and the APIs of other internal applications in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness within WFM. This individual will establish release governance and testing processes for web app development to automate WFM system maintenance and update activities. In addition, this individual will perform technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.

As the WFM systems are utilized by various roles across WFM and Operations, this position requires a holistic view of the organization and the ability to build strong relationships with a variety of business partners in order to help understand and articulate business requirements.

The successful candidate for this position is a self-motivated thought leader who is agile, strategic, process driven, and technically savvy with the proven ability to drive results within their team and through business partners.

Responsible for analyzing, modifying, and supporting application software. Ensures quality code is delivered through continuous integration, development, and testing. Performs technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications.

**** The position can be located at any of the Discover offices -
Phoenix, AZ, Riverwoods, IL, New Castle DE, Salt Lake City UT, New Albany OH. ***

Responsibilities

Maintains application software and systems. Ensures all projects and releases are appropriately tested and risks are mitigated.
Delivers technology solutions that support business goals. Partners with the product owner to understand business requirements, evaluates features, and translates application specifications into workable technical solutions.
Supports technical initiatives and provides input into best practices to team.
Oversees and reviews development activities of team members and contractors.
Develops capability enhancements and automation opportunities across WFM forecasting, scheduling, planning, reporting, and systems teams
Helps drive data democratization through the use of WFM system APIs
Supports technical initiatives and provides input into best practices to team
Promote a risk-aware culture; ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes
Skills:

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Business Computer Systems, or related technical field
Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SOAP/REST APIs and knowledge of front/back end frameworks
6+ years of relevant work experience
Strong communication (oral and written), interpersonal, presentation, and planning skills with high attention to detail

We’re looking for a Server side API Engineer to work on Mobile application Service Layer that will be used by tens of millions of American Express cardholders around the world. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity. Should enjoy solving tough problems and working with new technologies. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas, and be obsessive about user experience and beautiful code. You’ll be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mandate is to develop new products and platforms for American Express customers. Mobile Engineering’s aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after the time of purchase. You’ll be working in a fast-paced environment with the stability of working for a Fortune 100 company. Your primary responsibilities will be to work on a small team of engineers developing mobile products. You should be familiar with modern software development methodologies, and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, architecture, and development of Sever side APIs that are elegant, efficient, secure, highly available, and maintainable

• Works closely with other developers (within the team and outside the team), and product owners to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

• Contribute insights into ways to improve our processes and tools

• Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, “can-do” attitude in a fast moving environment

• Follow and help cultivate consistent development best practices

• Collaborates with project manager and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the Server side APIs

• Provides thought-leadership regarding implementation best practices

• Assists in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features

• Foster a collaborative spirit across multiple teams

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Technology or related field.

• Knowledge of developing trends and emerging standards in mobile apps (RxJava, Kotlin, etc), mobile payments, and wearables

• Minimum of 1 years of experience in API/Web Service Development and 3 years of experience in Java/J2EE/Web Development

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Familiar with the complete software development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, etc.)

• Great knowledge of Java design principles, patterns, and best practices

• Excellent technical knowledge of Java, J2EE, Spring and RESTful API development

• Thorough understanding of JSON, XML, SOAP, HTTP, web services technologies, and data structure fundamentals, with experience in multi-threaded programming

• Experience with build (using Gradle, Maven, Ant, etc.) and deployments on application servers (like Websphere, Weblogic)

• Experience working with testing libraries (like Junit, Mockito)

• Familiar with Continuous Integration/Deployment (using Jenkins, Maven, JMeter, etc.)

• Knowledge of the open-source Java ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks

• Understanding of code versioning using git, github and gitflow.

• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable enterprise application

• Experience in creation and review of software and architecture designs

• Basic understanding of Web Technologies like Javascript, CSS, and HTML5

• Experience with Kotlin is a plus

Expedia
HomeAway, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. HomeAway is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.
HomeAway is looking a Staff Software Engineer to play a key role engineering and building out solutions and tools that enable our global Sales and Customer Experience teams to support millions of vacation rental owners and traveler customers across the HomeAway platform. We are looking for an adaptable, high performing, motivated, and self-reliant full-stack Software Engineer with past experience developing leading edge web applications in a cloud architecture. These applications will use hundreds of separate services and applications, via a highly adaptable web layer using the latest technologies allowing us to provide an extraordinary experience to our customers.
**What Youll Do
**

• Challenges Youll Work On:
  • Build reusable component-based web UI architectures with React.js
  • Develop features relying on event-driven data, microservices, and data science programming models
  • Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
  • Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
  • Build RESTful APIs using Node.js and Hapi.js
  • Drive architectural decisions on our frontend and backend systems

**Who You Are
**

• Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of software development experience developing web applications
  • Comfortable collaborating on a multi-functional team including product management, architects, and UI designers
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum team environment
  • Skilled with server-side JS frameworks (Node.js, Hapi.js, Express, etc)
  • Skilled with single page application JS frameworks (React.js, Redux, etc.)
  • Skilled in building RESTful APIs
  • Knowledge/experience of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Docker, TeamCity, etc.) a plus

**Benefits & Perks
**

• Competitive health and insurance benefits.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual target bonus or commission.
• Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility).
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Free snacks and beverages.
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.
• Free listing on HomeAway.com.
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass.
• Casual dress.

**Why Join Us
**Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.
Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.
Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

HomeAway, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. HomeAway is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.

HomeAway is looking a Software Engineer to play a key role engineering and building out solutions and tools that enable our global Sales and Customer Experience teams to support millions of vacation rental owners and traveler customers across the HomeAway platform. We are looking for an adaptable, high performing, motivated, and self-reliant full-stack Software Engineer with past experience developing leading edge web applications in a cloud architecture. These applications will use hundreds of separate services and applications, via a highly adaptable web layer using the latest technologies allowing us to provide an extraordinary experience to our customers.

What you’ll do:
Challenges You’ll Work On:
Build reusable component-based web UI architectures with React.js
Develop features relying on event-driven data, microservices, and data science programming models
Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
Build RESTful APIs using Node.js and Hapi.js
Drive architectural decisions on our frontend and backend systems

Who you are:
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree or higher, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of software development experience developing web applications
Comfortable collaborating on a multi-functional team including product management, architects, and UI designers
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum team environment
Skilled with server-side JS frameworks (Node.js, Hapi.js, Express, etc)
Skilled with single page application JS frameworks (React.js, Redux, etc.)
Skilled in building RESTful APIs
Knowledge/experience of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Docker, TeamCity, etc.) a plus

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits.

• Competitive salary.

• Annual target bonus or commission.

• Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility).

• Paid vacation and sick time.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program.

• Free snacks and beverages.

• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.

• Free listing on HomeAway.com.

• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.

• Discounted Metro & Rail pass.

• Casual dress.

Why join us:
Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.