Hybrid Lead Software Engineer, Fullstack – Enterprise Platforms Technology

at Capital One

• Job title: Lead Software Engineer, Fullstack – Enterprise Platforms Technology
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $179,400 - $225,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AEM, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, ElasticSearch, ETL, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Microservices, Node.js, Open Source, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, McLean, United States

About the role

• Lead Software Engineer responsible for building and maintaining APIs and microservices at Capital One. Focused on content infrastructure across various customer-facing channels.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs and microservices for content authoring, versioning, approval workflows, and multi-channel publishing.
• Design and operate digital asset pipelines — ingestion, transformation, metadata tagging, rights management, and CDN-backed delivery with security controls (signed URLs, token-based access).
• Contribute to content migration efforts, including ETL pipelines for moving content between CMS platforms (e.g., AEM to Bloomreach) with data integrity validation.
• Implement search and retrieval capabilities using Elasticsearch or similar technologies, optimizing for read-heavy content serving workloads.
• Write well-tested, production-ready code with comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests; participate in CI/CD pipeline development.
• Support RTO/RPO requirements and build resilience patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, failover) appropriate for a banking regulatory context.
• Collaborate with product managers, content strategists, and compliance teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 4 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 (Preferred)
• 7+ years of experience in at least one of Java, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js (Preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with RESTful API design (Preferred)
• 3+ years of cloud services (AWS preferred) (Preferred)
• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks (Preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices (Preferred)
• 2 + years with CI/CD practices (Preferred)
• 2 + years of experience containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) (Preferred)
• At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization.

Benefits

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