Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Mobile Engineer 4 to join our team at Capital One, a leading financial institution. As a Mobile Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality mobile applications for Android.
Job Summary: As a Mobile Engineer 4, you will partner with software engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for over 100 million customers. You will provide technical leadership for mobile architecture and design patterns, act as a multiplier for your team's impact, and mentor other engineers to foster their growth.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with software engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
- Provide technical leadership for mobile architecture and design patterns, acting as a multiplier for your team's impact
- Mentor other engineers, fostering their growth through thoughtful feedback, code reviews, and sharing of platform-specific best practices, while helping to identify and clear technical obstacles
- Grow and provide subject matter expertise in key platform areas (e.g., performance, accessibility, architecture)
- Contribute to mobile architecture decisions, API design reviews, and reusable component development
- Lead the design and development of client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and Server-Driven UI (SDUI) architectures to deliver scalable and flexible product experiences
- Lead the implementation and refinement of well-managed engineering practices, defining best practices for feature flags and staged rollouts to improve product delivery and quality
- Champion the adoption of agentic AI tools, mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices to increase team velocity
- Apply mastery of the modern mobile ecosystem (including deep platform-specific capabilities and advanced UI patterns) to make complex, high-leverage, hands-on technical contributions
- Drive a culture of quality, performance, accessibility, and customer empathy, establishing high standards for coding, testing, and user experience
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 3 years of experience building native mobile applications for Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience building native mobile applications for Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift)
- Demonstrated experience with modern native UI frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose)
- Demonstrated experience designing and building automated testing suites for mobile (e.g., Swift Testing, XCUI, JUnit, Espresso)
- Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization on native mobile platforms
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable mobile architectures and reusable component libraries
- Experience implementing and maintaining comprehensive automated testing
- Demonstrated experience with modular architecture and modern state management patterns
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) to orchestrate data for mobile clients using technologies like GraphQL and efficient networking protocols (e.g., gRPC/Protobuf)
- Demonstrated experience with Server-Driven UI (SDUI) architectures
- Demonstrated experience in metrics-driven staged rollout and feature flag strategies
- Expertise with agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted workflow patterns
- Familiarity with on-device ML frameworks (e.g., CoreML, TensorFlow Lite)
Salary: Remote (Regardless of Location): $179,400 - $204,700 for Mobile Engineer 4 McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Mobile Engineer 4
Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.