Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI Content Platform

Capital One; United States; On-site; USD 179,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in McLean, VA to design and own the Content Hub—a vector and graph database platform for semantic content retrieval. You will oversee embedding pipelines, indexing, and model refresh strategies to power AI-driven content generation.

You will collaborate with product managers and a diverse engineering team, using Python, AWS, and modern data infrastructures to deliver scalable cloud solutions for millions of Americans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• At least 1 year of cloud computing experience (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design and build the Content Hub - vector and graph database infrastructure for semantic retrieval.
• Develop and operate embedding pipelines and manage indexing as content evolves.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver cloud-based AI-driven content management solutions.

Skills

Python

AWS

Vector databases

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

SQL

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

HTML/CSS

NoSQL

RDBMS

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in McLean, VA to design and own the Content Hub—a vector and graph database platform for semantic content retrieval. You will oversee embedding pipelines, indexing, and model refresh strategies to power AI-driven content generation.

You will collaborate with product managers and a diverse engineering team, using Python, AWS, and modern data infrastructures to deliver scalable cloud solutions for millions of Americans.