Senior Lead Software Engineer
Capital One Financial
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $184,937–$223,912 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $204k for comparable roles.
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Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking
Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.
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As a Sr Lead Software Engineer, you will join a team at the intersection of application engineering, data engineering, and data science to build high-throughput, real-time streaming pipelines and services that evaluate credit card transactions for fraud in milliseconds. You will lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers to create robust cloud-based solutions that meet regulatory needs. Your daily work involves machine learning feature engineering, continuous experimentation, and developing agentic tooling for advanced data analysis. The technical stack includes Java, Python, Go, Node, SQL, and Scala, alongside Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases. You will utilize container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes within an AWS environment to scale machine learning scoring models and decision engines while solving complex distributed systems problems to safeguard financial transactions.
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