Sr. Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Sr. Lead Software Engineer to join our Card Tech organization at Capital One. As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate with Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems.
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community.
• Utilize various programming languages, Open Source technologies, Relational/NoSQL databases, Containers and a variety of AWS tools and services with a special focus on Serverless initiatives.
• Implement software in unambiguous and uncomplicated domains with little to no support, while effectively combining standards and practices to implement more complex software.
• Implement a new, fully featured local build and deployment pipeline, while identifying improvements and making enhancements to established deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshoot the most complicated issues with local builds and deployment pipelines.
• Debug moderately complex issues across backend, frontend, middleware, infrastructure, databases and pipelines across all environments from local to production and across distributed systems.
• Develop features to enhance the overall user experience with little to no direction, knowing what non functionals to address and how.
• Lead a team of engineers through development of features by providing technical direction or detailed instruction.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• At least 11 years of experience building back-end services.
• At least 2 years of experience with Golang or GraphQL.
• At least 3 years of experience with a database technology.
• At least 4 years of experience designing, building, and testing distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in Agile or Kanban software development methodologies.
• 4+ years of experience with a cloud computing provider.
• 6+ years of experience implementing functional tests, unit tests, integrated tests or automated tests to support Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment.
• 4+ years of experience with a server side application framework.
• 6+ years of experience designing, building and delivering large scale systems.