Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Capital One is a financial services company focused on using technology to solve customer and business problems. The Mobile Engineer 4 - Android will provide technical leadership for native Android mobile architecture and development, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable, accessible, high-performing product experiences. The role also leads BFF and SDUI implementations, engineering practices, staged rollouts, and adoption of AI-assisted development tools.
Responsibilities
- Partner with software engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
- Provide technical leadership for mobile architecture and design patterns, acting as a multiplier for your team's impact
- Mentor other engineers, fostering their growth through thoughtful feedback, code reviews, and sharing of platform-specific best practices, while helping to identify and clear technical obstacles
- Grow and provide subject matter expertise in key platform areas (e.g., performance, accessibility, architecture)
- Contribute to mobile architecture decisions, API design reviews, and reusable component development
- Lead the design and development of client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and Server-Driven UI (SDUI) architectures to deliver scalable and flexible product experiences
- Lead the implementation and refinement of well-managed engineering practices, defining best practices for feature flags and staged rollouts to improve product delivery and quality
- Champion the adoption of agentic AI tools, mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices to increase team velocity
- Apply mastery of the modern mobile ecosystem (including deep platform-specific capabilities and advanced UI patterns) to make complex, high-leverage, hands-on technical contributions
- Drive a culture of quality, performance, accessibility, and customer empathy, establishing high standards for coding, testing, and user experience
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 3 years of experience building native mobile applications for Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift)
- At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer)
- Proven experience building native mobile applications for Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift)
- Demonstrated experience with modern native UI frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose)
- Demonstrated experience designing and building automated testing suites for mobile (e.g., Swift Testing, XCUI, JUnit, Espresso)
- Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization on native mobile platforms
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable mobile architectures and reusable component libraries
- Experience implementing and maintaining comprehensive automated testing
- Demonstrated experience with modular architecture and modern state management patterns
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) to orchestrate data for mobile clients using technologies like GraphQL and efficient networking protocols (e.g., gRPC/Protobuf)
- Demonstrated experience with Server-Driven UI (SDUI) architectures
- Demonstrated experience in metrics-driven staged rollout and feature flag strategies
- Expertise with agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted workflow patterns
- Familiarity with on-device ML frameworks (e.g., CoreML, TensorFlow Lite)
Benefits
- Engineers are provided with top-of-the-line MacBook Pros, multiple high-end monitors and the necessary tooling to develop the best possible products with the least amount of friction.
- This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
- Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
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