Lead Software Engineer, Agentic Technology (Enterprise Platform)

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced collaborative inclusive and iterative delivery environment At Capital One youll be part of a big group of makers breakers doers and disruptors who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Full Stack Software Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. As a Capital One Lead Software Engineer youll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within Capital One.

We are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to build the agentic orchestration runtime that powers Capital Ones AI content generation platform. You will own the generatorcritic agentic workflow harness the orchestration engine that coordinates AI agents to produce evaluate and refine marketing content through a structured bounded pipeline and the broader agentic infrastructure that supports AI-assisted content migration and content management automation.

What Youll Do:

• Build and operate the agentic workflow harness implement the generator agent critic agent multi-section parallel orchestration and bounded revision loop that form the core of the AI content generation pipeline

• Integrate the agentic pipeline with the enterprise LLM model gateway manage API calls handle rate limiting implement backpressure and instrument latency and quality metrics.

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company

• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends experimenting with and learning new technologies participating in internal & external technology communities mentoring other members of the engineering community

• Collaborate with digital product managers and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment

• Utilize programming languages like JavaScript Java HTML/CSS TypeScript SQL Python and Go Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of AWS tools and services

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)

• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree

• 7 years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript Java TypeScript SQL Python or Go

• 3 years of experience with AWS GCP Microsoft Azure or another cloud service

• 4 years of experience in open source frameworks

• 1 years of people management experience

• 2 years of experience in Agile practices

• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

• Experience with agentic or multi-step LLM pipeline design LangGraph LangChain or equivalent orchestration framework; understanding of how to structure tool calls state management and conditional branching in a multi-agent workflow.

• Experience building with LLM APIs (OpenAI-compatible or equivalent) in production you should understand prompt construction response parsing token budgeting and error handling in real service contexts not just Jupyter notebooks.

At this time Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B F-1 OPT F-1 STEM OPT F-1 CPT J-1 TN E-3 and O-1 or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive competitive and inclusive set of health financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status exempt or non-exempt status and management level.

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