Senior Lead Software Engineer AI-Driven Marketing

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 to architect and scale our marketing experimentation, audience segmentation, and journey‑orchestration platforms in McLean, VA. You will partner with data science, product, and engineering teams to design resilient, enterprise‑grade systems that power AI‑driven customer experiences.

As a technical leader, you will mentor engineers, drive best practices for low‑latency architectures, and advance open source and cloud‑native approaches.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design resilient, system-level architectures for enterprise-wide experimentation and journey orchestration.
• Scale high-performance systems across experimentation, audience segmentation, and decisioning.
• Incorporate AI tooling and distributed streaming to enable rapid, personalized experiences.
• Mentor engineers and cultivate technical excellence and innovation.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

SQL

Distributed systems

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

Open source frameworks

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to architect and scale our marketing experimentation, audience segmentation, and journey‑orchestration platforms in McLean, VA. You will partner with data science, product, and engineering teams to design resilient, enterprise‑grade systems that power AI‑driven customer experiences.

As a technical leader, you will mentor engineers, drive best practices for low‑latency architectures, and advance open source and cloud‑native approaches.