Senior Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack; Programming Language Excellence Center; Enterprise

Overview

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.

• 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. Implement 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:
  Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor 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.

• 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).

• Master’s Degree.
• 9+ years of experience in at least one of the following:
  JavaScript, Java, Type Script, SQL, Python, or Go.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service.
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks.
• 1+ years of people management experience.
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices.

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

The minimum and maximum full‑time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location:

• McLean, VA: $229,900 – $262,400 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer.
• Plano, TX: $209,000 – $238,500 for Sr. Lead Software Engineer.

These figures represent the salaries Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Positions in other locations will be subject to the pay range for that location,…