Lead Software Development Engineer

About this role

We are expanding across multiple engineering teams in our Nottingham office. As a Lead Software Development Engineer you wont just be a cog in the machine. You will technically guide cross-functional teams influence technical strategy and own the end-to-end delivery of high-impact products.

As you move forward well help you find your place among the teams tackling our most critical challenges. We dont just offer roles; we map your expertise to where it will make the greatest impact.

What Youll Do

• Architect & Build: Take end-to-end responsibility for technical design and implementation of significant services and applications.
• Lead & Mentor: Guide a team of engineers (not as a people leader) fostering a culture of technical excellence through Pair Programming TDD and BDD.
• Innovate at Scale: Collaborate with architects and product owners to design secure cloud-native architectures (AWS) that perform under global demand.
• Community Contribution: Help set the standard for what good looks like by contributing to inner-sourcing and standardized best practices across our entire engineering community.

What Were Looking For

We hire for engineering fundamentals not just a specific list of keywords. If you have the following wed love to talk:

• Technical Leadership: Youve led teams or squads through complex ambiguous projects.
• Agnostic Excellence: You have exceptional programming skills in modern OO languages. While we use a lot of Java we value engineers who understand SOLID principles SOA and REST regardless of their primary language.
• Cloud Fluency: Experience building and deploying in cloud environments.
• Collaborators: You thrive in an environment where you can communicate complex ideas simply and work across different teams to reduce waste and maximize impact.
• Visionary Innovator: You are excited by the opportunity AI offers to innovate how we deliver software

Where and how youll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.

Were big on collaboration and connection so youll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Whats in it for you

• Bring us all this and youll be rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation
• Were continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale security availability and performance for you to help solve
• We love continuous learning and thats why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the future
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme bonus generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym subsidised restaurant mindfulness and music London you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

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