Lead Software Engineer- Backend/API

Overview

West Creek 6 (12076), United States of America, Richmond, Virginia

Lead Software Engineer- Backend/API

Enterprise Platforms Technology is laying the groundwork to develop stellar experiences today, and support future experiences we haven't yet dreamt up. We believe in arming the business with a strong foundation of products that leaves them empowered to innovate and create incredible customer experiences.We partner to solve business problems that move us all forward. We are looking for Lead Software Engineer to be a reliable and productive partner today, and an innovative trailblazer for tomorrow.

The ideal candidate should:

• Possess excellent application/architecture design skills, coding skills, and a zeal for building applications using open source frameworks for cloud native technologies.

• Be responsible for all aspects of SDLC of existing and new components.

• Be comfortable using modern backend frameworks (NodeJS, Typescript, HapiJS), microservices, and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra) with full ownership of shipping user-facing enterprise products.

• Focus on the customer and the details that make their experience exceptional.

• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization.

• Collaborate with and across teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in a full-stack development tools and technologies.

• Possess a strong sense of engineering quality and takes pride in the code they’re responsible for while defining best practices as our teams abide by a You Build It You Own It attitude.

Responsibilities :

• Design application architectures and solutions.

• Build resilient APIs and Microservices using the latest technologies.

• Perform engineering activities for performance tuning and deep monitoring of applications and services.

• Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of the system, determine the priority of work, and ensure integrated end-to-end design and delivery.

• Leverage DevOps practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

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 

• 3+ years of experience developing RESTful APIs

• 1+ year of experience with Relational databases (RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL)

• 1+ year of experience with Streaming Data and Data Lake (AWS S3 DataLake)

• 1+ year of experience in developing UNIX and Shell Scripts

• 1+ year of experience in Testing frameworks and Quality Assurance technologies: ATDD, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, and SoapUI

• 1+ year of experience in Container orchestration frameworks: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or Amazon ECS

• 1+ year of experience providing enterprise Linux-based systems administration

• 1+ year of experience with Artifactory, Nexus and GitHub

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital 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.

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