Capital One

Banking

SeniorSoftwareDevelopmentEngineer-SharedPlatforms

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms at Capital One. Skills: Software development, API development, Cloud computing (AWS), CI/CD, Security, Performance at scale. Design, enable and develop software features that support the UK API Gateway. Understand product direction and translate requirements into technical solutions”

What You'll Achieve.

Contribute to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation; Help solve problems of scale, security, availability and performance in the public cloud

Industry & Context.

Banking

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of building software that is secure, testable, and performs at scale, Exceptional programming skills using modern languages (e. g. Java), Experience working with APIs over HTTP using RESTful architecture, Proficiency in cloud-based projects, particularly with AWS Console and Secrets Manager, Experience with CI/CD tools (e. g. Jenkins), secrets management tools, Jira, Familiarity with observability tools (e. g. using metrics, traces, logs to debug/investigate), Familiarity with Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies and frameworks, Familiarity with containerisation (e. g. AWS machine images, Kubernetes), An understanding of infrastructure as code, The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and pivot to meet business priorities/needs, Great communication skills

Nice to Have

experience with procedural languages (e. g. Lua/Go) and/or writing API plugins, familiarity with AI tools/prompting

What You'll Do.

enable and develop software features that support the UK API Gateway

Understand product direction and translate requirements into technical solutions

Take end-to-end responsibility for the technical design

and operational considerations of specific deliverables

Drive engineering best practices and set standards

Innovate and identify opportunities to simplify and remove friction for engineers throughout the SDLC

Manage stakeholders and other relationships

coach and mentor more junior colleagues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work in a cross-functional engineering team; Partnering with colleagues across our entire business; Manage stakeholders and other relationships as a point of contact within your team; Work closely with engineers in your team to share knowledge, cross-skill, coach and mentor more junior colleagues

Communication Scope

Great communication skills

Full Job Description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Senior Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms ****About this role**** Capital One’s mission is to change banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be contributing to the development of our applications and solutions that support our software and infrastructure delivery teams within Capital One. Our Engineers are people who lead by example, build strong and valuable relationships and have the confidence to influence at all levels. We are proud of who we are and what we do and want you to join us at this particularly exciting time at Capital One. You will be working in a focused delivery team whilst partnering with colleagues across our entire business to enable and enhance the ability for our teams to deliver solutions at pace. ****What you’ll do**** * Work in a cross-functional engineering team to design, enable and develop software features that support the UK API Gateway * Work with the Engineering Manager, stakeholders and the Enterprise to understand the product direction and translate those requirements into technical solutions * Take end-to-end responsibility for the technical design, implementation, and operational considerations of specific deliverables * Drive engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc…) and set standards, across your team and wider engineering teams * Innovate and identify opportunities to simplify and remove friction for engineers throughout the SDLC * Manage stakeholders and other relationships as a point of contact within your team, standing in for the Engineering Manager as needed * Advocate for quality, driving the team to leverage approaches such as pair programming, TDD and BDD * Work closely with engineers in your team to share knowledge, cross-skill, coach and mentor more junior colleagues ****What we’re looking for**** * Extensive, demo

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