Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Golang, Python, GenAI) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Overview

The role of Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Golang, Python, GenAI) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering) at Capital One involves driving the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Enterprise Architecture tooling, shaping how application health, compliance, and governance are managed at scale. This includes establishing intelligent guardrails using automated, AI-driven solutions to enforce real-time governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all Capital One applications. The role also involves pioneering modern paradigms such as event-driven architectures, mesh data topologies, and next-gen cloud-native design, ensuring systems are resilient, highly secure, and horizontally scalable.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the Enterprise Vision: Shape and advance the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Enterprise Architecture tooling, transforming how application health, compliance, and governance are managed at scale.
• Establish Intelligent Guardrails: Design and champion enterprise-wide architectural patterns, utilizing automated, AI-driven solutions to enforce real-time governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all Capital One applications.
• Pioneer Modern Paradigms: Infuse industry trends into our ecosystem—such as event-driven architectures, mesh data topologies, and next-gen cloud-native design—ensuring systems are resilient, highly secure, and horizontally scalable.
• Lead Complex Tech Initiatives: Oversee and de-risk the architectural design, testing, deployment, and optimization of highly critical distributed systems, microservices, and full-stack platforms.
• Be a Hands-On Catalyst: Maintain deep technical expertise and actively write code, conduct architecture reviews, create proofs-of-concept (PoCs), and rigorously evaluate codebases to validate technical directions.
• Master the Stack: Leverage a modern, robust tech stack utilizing programming languages like Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript, combined with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), open-source RDBMS/NoSQL databases, and advanced AWS cloud services.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate seamlessly with digital product managers, engineering teams, data scientists, and risk/governance partners to build secure fintech solutions that empower millions of customers.
• Scale Engineering Excellence: Act as a premier technical consultant and mentor across the broader engineering community, elevating technical standards, driving open-source contributions, and dismantling architectural silos.
• Foster Tech Culture: Share a relentless passion for staying ahead of the tech curve; experiment with emerging technologies (such as LLMs and automated compliance agents) and actively participate in internal and external tech communities.

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 with Golang and Python
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP or Microsoft Azure
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion