Lead Software Engineer, Back End - Card Tech

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA

Lead Software Engineer, Back End - Card Tech role at Capital One, focusing on building and pioneering technology solutions for card technology. The role involves leading a team, collaborating with product managers, and delivering cloud-based solutions using various programming languages and AWS services. It is a backend engineering role within the fintech domain, with a focus on delivering customer-facing financial empowerment solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company
  2. Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code
  3. Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
  4. Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 4 years of professional software engineering experience
  • 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree
  • 7+ years of experience in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
  • 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
  • 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
  • 1+ years of people management experience
  • 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

What the JD emphasized

  • meet regulatory needs