Salesforce Engineering Lead — Build Scalable, Reliable Platforms

Capital One (Europe) plc; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an engineering leader in Nottingham to coach and mentor cross-functional teams. You will shape scalable patterns for enterprise features on Salesforce and related platforms, balancing short-term delivery with strategic goals.

You will thrive in a hybrid role, spending three days in the office (Tue–Thu) with Mon and Fri for remote work, and you will participate in Capital One University training alongside a strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience leading, coaching, and supporting an engineering team to achieve goals.
• Empathy and deep understanding of the day-to-day technical and delivery challenges faced by developers.
• Ability to trade off between short-term delivery needs and long-term business goals.
• Passion for recruiting, nurturing, and developing exceptional engineering talent.
• Advocate for inner-sourcing and cross-engineering collaboration to maximize learning.
• Identify value-based intents to deliver on product roadmaps.
• Solve real-world problems in a complex, regulated environment.
• Enjoy hybrid working with in-office Tue, Wed, Thu.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an engineering team to deliver scalable enterprise features.
• Collaborate across tech teams to design robust and secure solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices and shared standards.
• Balance delivery demands with long-term strategic goals while reducing waste.

Skills

Leadership

Empathy

Architectural judgment

Problem solving

Talent development

Tools

Salesforce Service Cloud

CI/CD pipelines

High availability systems

Salesforce Platform Developer 1

Job description

Capital One is seeking an engineering leader in Nottingham to coach and mentor cross-functional teams. You will shape scalable patterns for enterprise features on Salesforce and related platforms, balancing short-term delivery with strategic goals.

You will thrive in a hybrid role, spending three days in the office (Tue–Thu) with Mon and Fri for remote work, and you will participate in Capital One University training alongside a strong benefits package.