Lead Software Engineer
Capital One
Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Full Stack Software Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. As a Capital One Lead Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.
What You’ll Do:
Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects 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
Familiarity with many modern application architecture and design patterns, with the ability to leverage them in moderately complex domains
Teach others architecture and design patterns and how and when to apply them
Debug moderately complex issues across backend, frontend, middleware, infrastructure, databases and pipelines across all environments from local to production and across distributed systems
Partner with product and design teams to develop and integrate advanced features to the platform
Develop features to enhance the overall user experience with little to no direction, knowing what non functionals to address and how
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree
At least 8 years of experience building back-end services (Including but not limited to: Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Node, Scala, TypeScript, Spring Boot)
At least 6 years of experience with a database technology (Including but not limited to: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
At least 4 years of experience designing and building data intensive solutions using distributed computing and knowledge of event-driven development
At least 4 years of experience in building SDKs, in-depth understanding of OOPs concept and building packages, libraries for downstream consumption
At least 6 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects
At least 4 years of experience developing and deploying ML platform solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in Agile or Kanban software development methodologies and Agile software development
8+ years of experience with a cloud computing provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
3+ years of experience in MLOps either using open source tools like MLFlow or commercial tools
3+ years of experience building production-ready capabilities for large scale platforms
8+ years of experience with a server side application framework (Django, Express, Spring)
Hands-on implementation of responsible AI, building solution for guard rails, model explainability, fairness and goverance.
Exposure to Generative AI application and familiarity with open source or commercial LLMs, and some experience in latest open source libraries such as LangChain, haystack and vector databases like open search, chroma and FAISS.
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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