Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

About this roleCapital One is a leading technology company that is changing banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. In this role you will serve as a Lead Software Development Engineer – Shared Platforms in our Nottingham office, contributing to the development of applications and solutions that support our software and infrastructure delivery teams.What you’ll doLead a team or cross‑functional engineering team to design, enable and develop software features that support the delivery of software and services within your delivery domain.Work with engineering leads, stakeholders and the enterprise to understand product direction and translate requirements into technical solutions.Take end‑to‑end responsibility for technical design, implementation and operational considerations.Drive engineering best practices (Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards across the team and wider engineering teams.Innovate and identify opportunities to simplify and remove friction for engineers throughout the SDLC.Enable platforms and enablement teams to offer solutions that increase productivity and reduce friction.Build stronger partnerships between Product Engineering, senior engineering and the Enterprise.QualificationsExtensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing secure, high‑performance architectures at scale.Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages, preferably Java, and SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST.Experience with Spring and Spring Boot.Proficiency in cloud‑based projects, particularly with AWS, and in software engineering best practices.Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, data lakes and observability products (metrics, traces, logs, Go).Effective communication across engineering teams to maximize inner‑sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.Proven ability to deliver high‑quality applications at scale.Advocacy for quality and support for practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.Where and how you’ll workThis is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office with a hybrid working model: three days in office (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) and the flexibility to work from home.BenefitsStrong career progression supported by Capital One University training programmes.Core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance.Flexible benefits such as season‑ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme and enhanced parental leave.Open‑plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you, including a fully‑serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and dedicated development resources.Equal OpportunityCapital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact [email protected].

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