Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Capital One is a financial technology company seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer for its Capital One Shopping Categories team. The role involves owning greenfield product development, designing scalable distributed microservices, partnering with product managers on technical strategy, and mentoring engineers while using modern cloud and data technologies.
Responsibilities
- **Own and Build 0 → 1 Greenfield Products:** Take technical ownership of brand-new, greenfield product spaces from inception to deployment. You will be a hands-on engineer deeply involved in building and delivering highly scalable, distributed microservices, with a heavy emphasis on robust backend architecture
- **Master Complex Scale:** Work across diverse platforms and stacks. While day-to-day development relies heavily on JavaScript/TypeScript, you will also touch unique infrastructure and big data pipelines tracking over 3 billion items and terabytes of analytics
- **Partner & Ideate:** Collaborate closely with Digital Product Managers to define technical strategy, exercise high ownership over your domain, and turn ambiguous consumer needs into high-performing features
- **Mentor & Code:** Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with new technologies, and mentoring members of the engineering community. You will lead by example—participating in architectural design, code evaluations, and hands-on coding
- **Leverage Modern Tech:** Utilize programming languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Python, or Go, alongside Open Source RDBMS, distributed NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and a wide variety of AWS cloud native tools
Skills
- * 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
- * 7+ years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Python, or Go
- * 3+ 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
Benefits
- This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
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