Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (GraphDB & API Platform) (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

About the role

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 love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in the evolution of foundational customer data and relationship platforms, supporting both existing distributed data systems and the development of next-generation data capabilities. This role will help lead the design and delivery of scalable APIs, data contracts, self-service capabilities, and cloud-native platform services that integrate with multiple underlying data technologies. The Senior Lead will work across current and future-state architectures, helping establish patterns that enable applications and consumers to interact consistently with customer data and relationship capabilities as the underlying technology ecosystem evolves. 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

• Lead the architecture and evolution of APIs, data contracts, and platform services supporting large-scale customer data and relationship capabilities.
• Provide senior technical leadership for the modernization and evolution of foundational data platforms while ensuring interoperability and continuity with existing systems.
• Establish architectural patterns that enable applications and consumers to interact consistently with customer data while allowing underlying platforms and persistence technologies to evolve.
• Partner with technical leaders across data modeling, database architecture, platform engineering, and product teams to align APIs, contracts, and platform capabilities with evolving customer data models.
• Lead technical strategy for self-service capabilities that simplify how engineering teams onboard, manage, and consume customer data capabilities.
• Design and deliver highly available, resilient, scalable, and observable distributed systems and cloud-native services.
• Drive automation and operational excellence to reduce manual processes and improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Influence technical strategy and architecture across multiple engineering teams and domains while mentoring engineers and developing technical talent across the organization.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and engineering practices, experiment with new approaches, and contribute to the broader engineering community.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience (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: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
• 5+ years of experience leveraging GraphDB and designing API platform architectures
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 4+ years of experience serverless and container-based cloud architectures and large-scale data-processing technologies
• 4+ years of experience in the architecture and implementation of distributed, cloud-native platforms at scale
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Pay

• McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer
• Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer
• Richmond, VA: $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.

Benefits

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.