Description:
Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms
About This Role
Capital One’s mission is to change banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. As a Lead Senior Engineer you will be contributing to the development of our applications and solutions that support our software and infrastructure delivery teams within Capital One.
Our Engineers are people who lead by example, build strong and valuable relationships and have the confidence to influence at all levels. We are proud of who we are and what we do and want you to join us at this particularly exciting time at Capital One.
You will be working with focused delivery teams whilst partnering with colleagues across our entire business to enable and enhance the ability for our teams to deliver solutions at pace.
What you’ll do
- You will lead a team or cross-functional engineering team to design, enable and develop software features that support the delivery of software and services within your delivery domain.
- Work with the engineering lead, stakeholders and the enterprise to understand the product direction and to then translate those requirements into technical solutions.
- You will take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operational considerations
- You will play a crucial role in supporting the elevation of engineering enablement, excellence, and experience across the broader engineering community
- Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards, across your team and wider engineering teams.
- Innovate and Identify opportunities to simplify and remove friction for engineers throughout the SDLC.
- Enable our platforms and enablement teams to offer solutions that increase productivity and reduce friction.
- Drive efforts to build stronger partnerships between Product Engineering, senior engineering and the Enterprise.
What were looking for
- Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing architectures that are secure and perform at scale
- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages preferably Java, SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST
- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge Spring and Spring Boot.
- Proficiency in cloud-based projects, particularly with AWS and software engineering
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and unit testing (JUnit, Mockito)
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, datalakes and Observability products (metrics, traces, logs, Go)
- You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
- You’ll have a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale.
- You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.