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If you love building, pioneering in the technology space, and solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment, you will thrive at Capital One alongside a dynamic group of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) Technology division, which is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience, and availability. In this role, you will drive Capital One’s tech evolution by building well-architected solutions that empower our developers to innovate rapidly. Your critical priority will be designing AI-driven systems to automate and scale our governance and oversight, leading the creation of intelligent guardrails that ensure architectural excellence and compliance across all applications, and leveraging machine learning to deliver real-time insights and proactive risk management.
If you love building, pioneering in the technology space, and solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment, you will thrive at Capital One alongside a dynamic group of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) Technology division, which is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience, and availability. In this role, you will drive Capital One’s tech evolution by building well-architected solutions that empower our developers to innovate rapidly. Your critical priority will be designing AI-driven systems to automate and scale our governance and oversight, leading the creation of intelligent guardrails that ensure architectural excellence and compliance across all applications, and leveraging machine learning to deliver real-time insights and proactive risk management.
Drive the Enterprise Vision: Shape and advance the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Enterprise Architecture tooling, transforming how application health, compliance, and governance are managed at scale.
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Establish Intelligent Guardrails: Design and champion enterprise-wide architectural patterns, utilizing automated, AI-driven solutions to enforce real-time governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all Capital One applications.
Pioneer Modern Paradigms: Infuse industry trends into our ecosystem—such as event-driven architectures, mesh data topologies, and next-gen cloud-native design—ensuring systems are resilient, highly secure, and horizontally scalable.
Lead Complex Tech Initiatives: Oversee and de-risk the architectural design, testing, deployment, and optimization of highly critical distributed systems, microservices, and full-stack platforms.
Be a Hands-On Catalyst: Maintain deep technical expertise and actively write code, conduct architecture reviews, create proofs-of-concept (PoCs), and rigorously evaluate codebases to validate technical directions.
Master the Stack: Leverage a modern, robust tech stack utilizing programming languages like Java, Python, Go, and TypeScript, combined with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), open-source RDBMS/NoSQL databases, and advanced AWS cloud services.
Partner Cross-Functionally : Collaborate seamlessly with digital product managers, engineering teams, data scientists, and risk/governance partners to build secure fintech solutions that empower millions of customers.
Foster Tech Culture: Share a relentless passion for staying ahead of the tech curve; experiment with emerging technologies (such as LLMs and automated compliance agents) and actively participate in internal and external tech communities.
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Full-time
Senior · 4+ years experience
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