Senior Software Engineer

At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Full Stack Software Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. As a Capital One Lead Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects with deep experience in distributed microservices and full-stack systems.
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal and external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community.
• Utilise various programming languages, Open Source technologies, Relational/NoSQL databases, Containers and a variety of AWS tools and services with a special focus on Serverless initiatives.
• Implement software in unambiguous and uncomplicated domains with little to no support, while effectively combining standards and practices to implement more complex software.
• Implement a new, fully featured local build and deployment pipeline, while identifying improvements and making enhancements to established deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshooting the most complicated issues with local builds and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with many modern application architectures and design patterns, with the ability to leverage them in moderately complex domains.
• Teach others architecture and design patterns and how and when to apply them.
• Debug moderately complex issues across backend, frontend, middleware, infrastructure, databases and pipelines across all environments from local to production and across distributed systems.
• Quickly identify the root cause, implement a fix, and correct any affected data.
• Develop features to enhance the overall user experience with little to no direction, knowing what non functionals to address and how.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 7 years of experience building back-end services (Including but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Node, Scala, TypeScript, Spring Boot).
• At least 2 years of experience with a front-end language (Including but not limited to JavaScript, TypeScript) (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 6 years of experience with a database technology (Including but not limited to: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• At least 2 years of experience with a UI framework (Including but not limited to Angular, Vue, React) (Internship experience does not apply).
• At least 3 years of experience designing, building, and testing distributed systems (Internship experience does not apply).
• At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Agile or Kanban software development methodologies and Agile software development.
• 4+ years of experience with a cloud computing provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• 4+ years of experience implementing functional tests, unit tests, integrated tests or automated tests to support Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment.
• 4+ years of experience with a server-side application framework (Django, Express, Spring).
• 4+ years of experience building and testing software.
• 4+ years of experience with high-level design (HLD).