# Lead Software Development Engineer - Services

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

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## Description

Capital One is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer to join a backend team in their Nottingham office on a hybrid basis.

The role involves leading a team or cross-functional squad in delivering complex projects that support a broader business outcome. You will take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operational considerations. Collaboration with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders is essential to ensure successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team or cross-functional squad in delivering complex and ambiguous projects

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

- Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes

- Contribute to the development and dissemination of standardised and sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks

- Focus on a major portion of existing or new team software

Requirements:

- Proven experience in technical leadership, including leading a team or cross-functional squad

- Experience working in both backend services and mobile technologies

- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages, preferably Java

- Experience with AWS and strong understanding of cloud-based development

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

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

This is a permanent position with a hybrid working pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- AWS
- cloud-based development
- API design
- SOA
- HTTP
- REST

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