Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (react, Scala)

Capital One Capital One · Banking · New York, NY +1

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack role at Capital One, focusing on building a new messaging and push notification platform for Capital One Travel. The role involves leading a team, developing distributed microservices and full-stack systems, and collaborating with product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions. Experience with Scala, Java, Python, Go, cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), and databases is required. The role is primarily engineering-focused within the fintech domain, with a focus on platform development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work across Capital One Travel, as we look to develop the platform to support increased personalization, support new and emerging groups of users, and lead a team of developers and designers.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
  5. Utilize programming languages like Scala, Java, Python, and Go, 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
  • 6 years of experience in software engineering
  • 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Scala
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • Open Source RDBMS
  • NoSQL databases
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS tools and services

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree
  • 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: Scala, Java, Python, or Go
  • 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
  • 4+ years of experience in open frameworks
  • 1+ years of people management experience
  • 2+ years of experience in Agile practices
  • Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

What the JD emphasized

  • meet regulatory needs for the company