Senior Lead Backend Engineer - Java, AWS & Microservices

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for Back End development. You will lead a portfolio of distributed microservices projects and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions that empower millions of customers.

The role requires expertise in Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala, and AWS services, with experience in CI/CD and AI tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 1+ year of cloud computing experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company.
• Mentor other engineers, stay current with tech trends, participate in communities, and occasionally code or review code.
• Collaborate with digital product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions for billions of consumer interactions.
• Utilize Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala and AWS tools and services to build scalable systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Leadership

Cloud concepts

Code review

Agile practices

Open source collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Java

Python

SQL

Node.js

Go

Scala

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

RDS

DynamoDB

Kafka

CI/CD

Glue

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer for Back End development. You will lead a portfolio of distributed microservices projects and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions that empower millions of customers.

The role requires expertise in Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala, and AWS services, with experience in CI/CD and AI tooling.