Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (GraphDB & API Platform) (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

Capital One National Association; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 238,500; Full time

Job summary

Capital One, Enterprise Platforms Technology, seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide APIs, data contracts, and platform services for large-scale customer data platforms.

You will lead cross-functional teams across data modeling, architecture, and product to ensure scalable, observable, and resilient solutions in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering, internships excluded.
• 1+ year of cloud computing experience (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and evolution of APIs, data contracts, and platform services.
• Provide senior technical leadership for modernizing data platforms and ensuring interoperability.
• Establish architectural patterns for consistent data interaction as tech evolves.
• Collaborate with data modeling, database, platform engineering, and product teams to align APIs and capabilities.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Node.js

GraphDB

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

GraphDB

Job description

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (GraphDB & API Platform) (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

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 a Senior Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in the evolution of foundational customer data and relationship platforms, supporting both existing distributed data systems and the development of next-generation data capabilities. This role will help lead the design and delivery of scalable APIs, data contracts, self-service capabilities, and cloud-native platform services that integrate with multiple underlying data technologies.

The Senior Lead will work across current and future-state architectures, helping establish patterns that enable applications and consumers to interact consistently with customer data and relationship capabilities as the underlying technology ecosystem evolves.

Enterprise Platforms Technology (EPTech) comprises many of Capital One's most important enterprise platforms. We play an essential role in establishing practices for building technology solutions across the company, while also delivering capabilities that exemplify those practices.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the architecture and evolution of APIs, data contracts, and platform services supporting large-scale customer data and relationship capabilities.
• Provide senior technical leadership for the modernization and evolution of foundational data platforms while ensuring interoperability and continuity with existing systems.
• Establish architectural patterns that enable applications and consumers to interact consistently with customer data while allowing underlying platforms and persistence technologies to evolve.
• Partner with technical leaders across data modeling, database architecture, platform engineering, and product teams to align APIs, contracts, and platform capabilities with evolving customer data models.
• Lead technical strategy for self-service capabilities that simplify how engineering teams onboard, manage, and consume customer data capabilities.
• Design and deliver highly available, resilient, scalable, and observable distributed systems and cloud-native services.
• Drive automation and operational excellence to reduce manual processes and improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Influence technical strategy and architecture across multiple engineering teams and domains while mentoring engineers and developing technical talent across the organization.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and engineering practices, experiment with new approaches, and contribute to the broader engineering community.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
• 5 + years of experience leveraging GraphDB and designing API platform architectures.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 4+ years of experience serverless and container-based cloud architectures and large-scale data-processing technologies.
• 4 + years of experience in the architecture and implementation of distributed, cloud-native platforms at scale.
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.