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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack; Programming Language Excellence

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
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Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-04
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer, Software Engineer, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 229900 - 262400 USD Yearly USD 229900.00 262400.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Programming Language Excellence
# Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Programming Language Excellence Capital One Full Time senior Mc Lean , Virginia, USPosted Yesterday##

Role Overview Capital One is hiring a Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Programming Language Excellence. This is a full-time role in McLean. Part of Capital One's Fullstack hiring, posted yesterday. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.## Resume Keywords to Include Make sure these keywords appear in your resume to improve ATS scoring

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Job Description Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Programming Language Excellence Center) (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 solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer as the technical driver for the Programming Language Excellence Center (PLEC).

You are passionate about the technical foundation for language excellence, enabling developer productivity at scale, and securing software supply chain. As a Capital One Senior Tech Lead, you will drive the architecture and technical decision making for our most critical initiatives, focused on Standard Dev Environments and Observability across the entire PLEC space.

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
* Drive PLEC Technical Strategy:
Set the architectural direction and make critical technical decisions regarding observability and infrastructure enablement across all programming languages.
* Elevate Observability & Automate Standard:
Define the architecture and standards for language foundational tooling and analytics, centralized visibility into language usage and adherence to technical standards of excellence. Implementing automated mechanisms to provide immediate, actionable feedback on code health and quality, making secure and compliant development the easiest path for all engineers.
* Architect Language Infrastructure & Supply Chain:
Lead the design and implementation of foundational language infrastructure, focusing on the strategic modernization of CI images and the definition of secure, standardized "Golden Images" and distroless runtime images.
* Modernize Build

Infrastructure: Drive the evolution of build strategies, including the standardization of package management and the strategic refactoring of language-specific build logic into modern CI/CD platforms.
* Cultivate Technical Excellence:
Serve as a subject matter expert, mentoring and guiding PLEC Core engineers and collaborating with Language Communities of Practice (CoPs) to elevate engineering practices, fostering the inner-sourcing of common components.
* Share your passion:
Staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community.
* Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
* Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, Type Script, SQL, Python, and Go, Open Source RDBMS and No

SQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services### Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor’s Degree
* At least 6 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
* At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)###

Preferred…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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