Capital One
Lead Software Engineer - Back End (Golang, AWS)
McLean, Virginia · Senior · Part-time
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About the role
- Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment?
- As a Capital One Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.
- The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company
- Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (Internship experience does not apply)
- At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience with Golang
- 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
- 2+ years of experience in Agile practices
- Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion
- Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
- Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
- Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.
Compensation
- $197k-$225k
Company info
- Core Payments and Partnerships Tech (CPP) delivers best in class customer and partner experiences by transforming our Core lending, Inbound Payments, and Partnerships platforms.
- This includes Card Core Modernization, where they build a high quality modern core lending platform that allows us to innovate and create unified customer experiences across all of Capital One.
- Share your passion for 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, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code
- Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i
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