Lead Software Development Engineer - Services in London

Capital One is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join a backend team, based in our London office on a hybrid basis.

What You'll Do

• You will lead a team or cross‐functional squad in the delivery of complex and ambiguous projects that support a broader business outcome.
• You will take end‐to‐end responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operational considerations.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
• You will play a crucial role in supporting the elevation of engineering enablement, excellence, and experience across the broader engineering community.
• You will collaborate and contribute to the development and dissemination of standardised and sustainable best practices, tools, patterns, and frameworks that enhance productivity and quality of engineering efforts business‐wide.
• Your focus is on a major portion of existing or new team software (e.g., significant component, set of features, mid‐size application or service).
• You'll work to achieve the goals and vision shared by Product Management and your Tribe Leadership.
• Innovate within your team, initiative area and contribute within your technical domain.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in technical leadership, including leading a team or cross‐functional squad.
• Proven experience working in both backend services and mobile technologies.
• Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages preferably Java, SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST.
• Experience with AWS and strong understanding of cloud‐based development.
• Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing architectures that are secure and perform at scale.
• You're able to effectively communicate and work collaboratively across engineering to maximise inner‐sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• Proven experience in delivering high quality applications at scale.
• An advocate for quality and the ability to support the team, leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

Where and How You'll Work

This is a permanent position and will be based in our London office. We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home. You'll be based in our London office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What's in It For You

• Bring us all this – and you'll be handsomely rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organization 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. We want to hire the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right and smart thing. We provide an accessible recruitment process and multiple internal networks and support groups for employees. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact us; all information will be kept confidential and used only for the purposes of applying a reasonable adjustment.