Senior Software Development Engineer

Description:

This role will act as a Technical lead of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for maintaining and improving front-end applications for our most critical customer servicing web channels within the cloud.

We’re looking for an experienced professional whose technical skill set lies primarily with technologies/frameworks such as Java and whose passion for software engineering allows them to be a true inspiration to those that they work with on a daily basis, including team members based both on and offshore. AWS is Capital One's hosting platform of choice so your experience of Cloud-based architecture will stand you in good stead.

Our Principal Site Reliability Engineers are people who have the required skills to lead by example and are able to build strong and valuable relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. They have the ability to face into ambiguity and understand how to make sense of complexity.

What you’ll do

• Technically lead a group of engineers responsible for maintaining and improving front-end applications for our most critical customer servicing web channels within the cloud.

• Help to shape and deliver the goals and vision set out by your Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SREM) through your team and hands-on engineering

• Contribute to the major optimisation and improvement themes within the team. Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overheads through observability and service automation.

• Drive engineering best practice (e.g, Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, Resilience etc.) and set standards across the team and wider SRE community.

• Innovate within your team and contribute within your technical domain.

• Deliver key pieces of intent from inception through to design and hands-on delivery, in collaboration with your SREM.

• Estimate, scope and plan your work within an agile environment.

• Collaborate with our Product engineering teams to create an exceptional developer experience