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.