# Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: Nottingham, Eng
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Lead Senior Engineer at Capital One, you will contribute to developing applications and solutions supporting software and infrastructure delivery teams. You will lead a team or cross-functional engineering team to design, enable, and develop software features that support the delivery of software and services.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team or cross-functional engineering team to design, enable, and develop software features

- Work with the engineering lead, stakeholders, and the enterprise to understand product direction and translate requirements into technical solutions

- Take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operational considerations

- Play a crucial role in supporting the elevation of engineering enablement, excellence, and experience across the broader engineering community

- Drive engineering best practices and set standards across your team and wider engineering teams

Requirements:

- Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing architectures that are secure and perform at scale

- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages, preferably Java, SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP, and REST

- Proficiency in cloud-based projects, particularly with AWS and software engineering

- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and unit testing (JUnit, Mockito)

- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, datalakes, and Observability products (metrics, traces, logs, Go)

Benefits:

- Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes

- 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure

- Access to premium care through private medical insurance

- Enhanced parental leave

- Up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- SOLID principles
- SOA
- HTTP
- REST
- AWS
- Jenkins
- JUnit
- Mockito
- OpenTelemetry
- Go

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