Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

About the role

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

Job Title: Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we’ve consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Capital One UK.

About the Role

As a Lead Senior Engineer you will be contributing to the development of our applications and solutions that support our software and infrastructure delivery teams within Capital One.

Our Engineers are people who lead by example, build strong and valuable relationships and have the confidence to influence at all levels. We are proud of who we are and what we do and want you to join us at this particularly exciting time at Capital One.

You will be working with focused delivery teams whilst partnering with colleagues across our entire business to enable and enhance the ability for our teams to deliver solutions at pace.

What you’ll do

- You will lead a team or cross-functional engineering team to design, enable and develop software features that support the delivery of software and services within your delivery domain.

- Work with the engineering lead, stakeholders and the enterprise to understand the product direction and to then translate those requirements into technical solutions.

- You will take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, implementation, and operational considerations

- You will play a crucial role in supporting the elevation of engineering enablement, excellence, and experience across the broader engineering community

- Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards, across your team and wider engineering teams.

The skills and experience you need

- Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing architectures that are secure and perform at scale

- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages preferably Java, SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST

- Proficiency in cloud-based projects, particularly with AWS and software engineering

- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and unit testing (JUnit, Mockito)

- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, datalakes and Observability products (metrics, traces, logs, Go)

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday), with Monday and Friday being dedicated work-from-home days.