Staff Software Engineer - Capital One Travel Tech - Backend

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

Staff Software Engineer role focused on backend development for Capital One's travel tech platform, involving architecture, design, and development of fault-tolerant application systems. The role emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and contributing to the evolution of the travel ecosystem, integrating with systems like Brex and expense management. While the company mentions AI in recruitment, this specific role is not AI-centric.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work as part of a dynamic team throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
  2. Act as a tech lead developer owning technical design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform, fault tolerant application systems
  3. Continuously improve software engineering developer experience; identify gaps in existing internal framework and tools and contribute
  4. Establish Engineering best practices; identify and establish best practices and standards, such as code review standards.
  5. Technical expertises and Problem solving; define technical standards and providing technical support to ensure Engineering best practices are consistently met

Skills

Required

  • Java, Python, Go or other object-oriented programming languages
  • application and/or data design, architecture and development
  • AWS (highly preferred) or other cloud products (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • providing mentorship to Junior/Intermediate Associates and guidance to technical and business stakeholders

Nice to have

  • 8+ Years of experience leading the full life-cycle of Software Development
  • Bachelor's, Master’s or Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or in related field
  • Experience working in an agile environment and familiar with agile development methodologies

What the JD emphasized

  • tech lead developer owning technical design and development
  • technical design and development
  • technical standards
  • technical support