Master Software Engineer, Java - Full-time / Part-time

McLean 2 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.                                               

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.

Master Software Engineer, Java

We truly believe the “sky is the limit” when it comes to innovation in order to better serve our customers! All through the day, we think about challenges that our customers face and work out digitally enabled solutions to engage with our customers and take care of their needs. If you have the drive to build amazing digital products that impact the lives of millions daily, we want you!  We’re looking for driven technologists to work as engineers in our Card Technology group. To fit in, you have to be jazzed about delivering amazingly simple experiences that make life easier for both our customers and associates. 

You:

• A great communicator; both written and in person
• A true team player with the ability to work effectively as part of a diverse group of product and tech associates
• Passionate and excited about building/testing/deploying solutions leveraging cutting-edge tech in support of our customers and business

If those things up there sounds like you, and you can check the box on these things down here, let’s talk. Send us your information and let’s see what you have.

Position:

As a Master Software Engineer, you will lead the technology agenda in terms of driving and contributing solutions that are scalable and resilient using micro services architecture (Spring being the core and just about any open source framework that makes sense), hosted in Amazon Web Services, Containerization (Docker), touchless infrastructure using Chef, Ansible, Elastic Container Services , Kubernetes and Fabric8 based automated testing and performance suite.

Responsibilities:

• Be a technology evangelist and thought leader; Contribute to building Capital One’s external technology brand
• Provide strong leadership and direction to associates, emphasizing their technical skill development
• Own technical design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems
• Collaborate with other platforms tech leads to ensure integrated end-to-end design and delivery
• Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of system and determine priority of needs
• Proactively monitor applications and services
• Perform complex engineering activities for performance tuning and monitoring
• Identify gaps and take actions to completion
• Break down problems in the production environment to analyze, understand and resolve
• Understand how evolving technology affects the domain; stays current and leads team through new technologies
• Proven ability to recruit associates with exceptional technical and creative problem solving skills
• Evangelize Agile and drive continuous improvement in methodology and practices

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
• At least 6 years of experience in Java
• At least 4 years of experience in Spring framework
• At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API development
• At least 3 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of experience in infra provisioning using Cloud Formation Templates or Terraform
• At least 2 years of experience in Apache Spark or Flink
• At least 3 years of experience in various Java based open source frameworks
• At least 2 years of experience in Cloud technologies: Amazon Web Services or Google Compute Engine
• At least 1 years of experience in cluster management with Elastic Container Services or Kubernetes
• At least 3 years of experience in database technologies: SQL, No-SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra or Scylladb
• At least 2 years of experience in infra automation using Chef or Ansible Configuration Management
• At least 3 years of experience in developing RESTful APIs using Spring and Jersey or similar frameworks
• At least 3 years of experience with Github, Jenkins, Splunk or ELK
• At least 3 years of experience in tuning, performance testing and production monitoring using HP Diagnostics, JMeter, Splunk, BlueStripe, CloudWatch or Zabbix
• At least 3 years of experience with scripting languages Ruby, Python or Perl
• At least 3 years of experience with Agile methodologies Scrum, SAFe or Kanban
• Certified in Java and AWS 

At this time, Capital One will NOT sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.