Lead Software Development Engineer SRE (Global Payment Network)

Capital One; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Farnborough is seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to join their SRE team focused on the Digital Payments platform. You’ll automate infrastructure tasks, enhance the reliability of high-volume transactions, and mentor others in best practices. This full-time position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility with office attendance. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with scripting, observability tools, and cloud platforms, contributing to a transformative organization.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Bonus

Private medical insurance

Generous holiday entitlement

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Strong experience using infrastructure as code and configuration tools.
• Hands-on experience with UNIX environments and load balancers.
• Excellent knowledge of observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Digital Payments platform ensuring stability and reliability.
• Engage with teams for system design and data flow analysis.
• Mentor SREs and developers to promote reliability and automation.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Python

BASH

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Kafka

Postgres

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

JMeter

Gatling

Job description

Lead Software Development Engineer – SRE (Global Payment Network)

Farnborough (95987), United Kingdom

About this 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 Site Reliability Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team. As a Site Reliability Engineer you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

What You’ll Do

You will be joining the SRE team responsible for managing the Digital Payments platform of Discover, a Global Payments network. You will be improving the reliability of platforms supporting Digital wallets and payments platforms running high‑volume transactions.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience of using infrastructure as code and working with immutable infrastructure and configuration tools such as Terraform and Ansible to achieve end‑to‑end automation
• Good knowledge of programming, scripting, functional and performance testing tools (Python, BASH, Cucumber, JMeter, Gatling)
• Hands‑on experience working with UNIX environments, load balancers, GTMs
• Excellent hands‑on experience with observability tools (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Datadog, Splunk)
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms orchestration: designing infrastructure deployment patterns within AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift; working with multiple geographically distributed development teams to diagnose performance, reliability and security issues in applications and system design
• Engage with development teams and conduct thorough forensic analysis of system design and data flows and highlight any resiliency gaps of services. Work alongside wider payments reliability teams and across Discover and Capital One to ensure we follow similar design patterns and avoid duplicated work
• Work with our technology suppliers to ensure interfacing systems follow best practices that we have defined
• Good working knowledge of database or streaming platform, in particular strong knowledge in at least one of Kafka or Postgres
• Mentoring SREs and developers to help them design the right solutions and promote a culture of reliability and automation, contributing to best practices
• Ability to manage multiple high‑priority efforts/competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities
• Real interest in documentation – ability to document technical problems and post‑mortems accurately

Where and How You’ll Work

This is a permanent position and is based in our Farnborough 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 Farnborough office 2 days a week.

What’s in It for You

Bring us all this and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation. 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.

What You Should Know About How We Recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible, and we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

Capital One is Committed to Diversity in the Workplace

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact us. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.

Employment Details

Type: Full‑Time

Vacancy: 1