Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Programming Language Excellence Center) (Enterprise Platforms Technology) Full Time NEW

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 a Senior Lead Software Engineer as the technical driver for the Programming Language Excellence Center (PLEC). You are passionate about the technical foundation for language excellence, enabling developer productivity at scale, and securing software supply chain. As a Capital One Senior Tech Lead, you will drive the architecture and technical decision making for our most critical initiatives, focused on Standard Dev Environments and Observability across the entire PLEC space.

Enterprise Platforms Technology (EPTech) comprises many of Capital One’s most important enterprise platforms. We play an essential role in establishing practices for building technology solutions across the company, while also delivering capabilities that exemplify those practices.
What You’ll Do

• Drive PLEC Technical Strategy: Set the architectural direction and make critical technical decisions regarding observability and infrastructure enablement across all programming languages.

• Elevate Observability & Automate Standard : Define the architecture and standards for language foundational tooling and analytics, centralized visibility into language usage and adherence to technical standards of excellence. Implementing automated mechanisms to provide immediate, actionable feedback on code health and quality, making secure and compliant development the easiest path for all engineers.
• Architect Language Infrastructure & Supply Chain: Lead the design and implementation of foundational language infrastructure, focusing on the strategic modernization of CI images and the definition of secure, standardized “Golden Images” and distroless runtime images.
• Modernize Build Infrastructure : Drive the evolution of build strategies, including the standardization of package management and the strategic refactoring of language-specific build logic into modern CI/CD platforms.
• Cultivate Technical Excellence: Serve as a subject matter expert, mentoring and guiding PLEC Core engineers and collaborating with Language Communities of Practice (CoPs) to elevate engineering practices, fostering the inner-sourcing of common components.
• Share your passion: 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.
• Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
• Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, and Go, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Python, or Go
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• 1+ years of people management experience
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $229,900 – $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Plano, TX: $209,000 – $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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