Lead Software Development Engineer in Nottingham

We are expanding across multiple engineering teams in our Nottingham office. As a Lead Software Development Engineer, you won’t just be a "cog in the machine." You will technically guide cross-functional teams, influence technical strategy, and own the end-to-end delivery of high-impact products. As you move forward, we’ll help you find your place among the teams tackling our most critical challenges. We don’t just offer roles; we map your expertise to where it will make the greatest impact.

What You’ll Do

• Architect & Build: Take end-to-end responsibility for technical design and implementation of significant services and applications.
• Lead & Mentor: Guide a team of engineers (not as a people leader), fostering a culture of technical excellence through Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.
• Innovate at Scale: Collaborate with architects and product owners to design secure, cloud-native architectures (AWS) that perform under global demand.
• Community Contribution: Help set the standard for "what good looks like" by contributing to inner-sourcing and standardized best practices across our entire engineering community.

What We’re Looking For

• Technical Leadership: You’ve led teams or squads through complex, ambiguous projects.
• Agnostic Excellence: You have exceptional programming skills in modern OO languages. While we use a lot of Java, we value engineers who understand SOLID principles, SOA, and REST regardless of their primary language.
• Cloud Fluency: Experience building and deploying in cloud environments.
• Collaborators: You thrive in an environment where you can communicate complex ideas simply and work across different teams to reduce waste and maximize impact.
• Visionary Innovator: You are excited by the opportunity AI offers to innovate how we deliver software.

Where and how you’ll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home. We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this and you’ll be rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation.
• We’re continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solve.
• We love continuous learning and that’s why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the future.
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers).
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.