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Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

Capital One Nottingham, Eng Hybrid senior full-time

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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

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