Software Engineer

Company: Capital One
Location: Leesburg
Posted on: February 6, 2020

Job Description:

1750 Tysons (12023), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaAt 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.Software EngineerWe're Capital One. Yep, the "What's in your wallet?" people. But we are oh so much more than that. - Did you know we're a full service bank? Checking accounts, savings accounts, mortgages, and car loans. We could tell you more, but you're going to check out our web site anyway, right?
Capital One has a history of disrupting, and we are doing it again. We're experimenting, innovating, and delivering really cool stuff to 65 million customers. We love to be curious, to dream, to ask, "What if?" Oh, and we love to write code.Your commitment to learn new things is every bit as important to us as what you have already done. Maybe even more so because we don't want to be doing the same thing tomorrow that we're doing today. You accept change, want to grow, and evolve into a better member of the team.What will you work on as a Capital One Software Engineer? Buzz buzz buzz. Highly-available, highly-scalable micro-services, to back-end systems with sophisticated data engineering pipelines. All on the cloud! Versatility is the name of the game, as we play both offense by improving and streamlining customer experience, while also maintaining a strong defense by monitoring and building automated detection and decisioning to fight against potential bad actors and individuals trying to defraud Capital One and its customers. Our systems and applications seamlessly integrate software engineering, data engineering and data science in our effort to enable our customers while providing data-driven decisioning to stop unwanted activity.You will drive design, implementation, testing, release and support (buzz buzz DevOps) in an Agile environment, using modern methodologies and open source tools. Whether a new feature or a bug fix, you will lead your work and deliver the most elegant and scalable solutions, all while learning and growing your skills. Most importantly, you'll work and collaborate with a nimble, autonomous, cross-functional team of makers, breakers, doers, and disruptors who, love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.We hire engineers that have both systems and software backgrounds. Strong candidates will have experience with both. The software engineering role within Capital One is critical to our success and one that focuses on building a highly reliable, scalable and measurable customer experience ensuring continued growth of Capital One's critical services.The person we're looking for:

• Gets a bit excited about what they just read above
• Has a sense of intellectual technical curiosity and an addiction to learning, loves taking things apart and putting them back together
• Will be embedded with Capital One engineering teams to foster strong collaboration/partnership while actively looking for ways to contribute focusing on improving their services availability and operational processes
• Can mentor junior developers and easily collaborate with other engineering teams: education is a very important part of this role
• Builds tools to make our infrastructure more consistent, more reliable, more observable, and require less manual intervention
• Has a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Has a strong sense of engineering craftsmanship, takes pride in the code they write and believes that good software development includes good testing, documentation, collaboration and adherence of YBYO philosophy
• Has good communication and reasoning skills, including the ability to make a strong case for technology choices
• While we don't necessarily care what language you've used in the past, a large portion of our tech stack is built in Java, so experience with Java is preferredBasic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least 3 years experience in software development -
  • At least 3 years experience managing and supporting infrastructure and software applicationsPreferred Qualifications:
    • 3+ years experience in software development with Java
    • Experience in full-stack monitoring, metrics collection, and reporting using tools such as Kibana, Splunk, and New Relic
    • Experience implementing and managing automated CI/CD pipelines
    • Hands-on experience with AWS resources such ECS, EC2, EMR, Lambda and security management
    • Knowledge and experience with CloudFormation for build and deployment automation
    • Experience with parallel computing using Flink or Spark ---At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Keywords: Capital One, Leesburg , Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Leesburg, Virginia