Lead Back End Engineer (Node.JS) - Capital One Shopping

The Capital One Shopping Team is changing the way people make purchases online. Finding the best prices and grabbing the biggest discounts should be a simple and seamless experience, and with the Capital One Shopping suite of tools, we make that happen!

Our primary product is a browser extension that automatically searches for online coupons, lower prices, and rewards at over 30,000 online retailers--making it effortless to save money when you shop online. Last year alone, we found customers more than $160 million in savings.

Who We Are:

We are a fast-paced, get-stuff-done team made up of makers, designers and founders who are solving difficult problems in unique ways. Were focused on scaling our products to tens of millions of customers and refining the experience to create compelling value that our customers and partners cant live without.

Who are you:

• You are an experienced full stack engineer who enjoys both leading projects and being an individual contributor / technical expert

• You prefer an intense, energetic environment and working with passionate, top-notch people

• You execute well with a high degree of individual ownership, but are also adept working as part of a team

• You are comfortable balancing the competing demands of rapid iteration and system reliability, scalability, and performance

• You love working in a data-driven and customer-first environment

• Youre on top of new developments in the open source community

What you'll do:

• Work with product owners to understand desired initiatives and implement application capabilities

• Contribute to the web platform, codebase, and developer experience that supports capitaloneshopping.com and other internal initiatives

• Shape and continuously improve software engineering practices

• Own the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions

• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• At least 6 years of experience in Software Engineering (Node.JS, Java, or Go)

• At least 3 year experience with relational and non-relational databases

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience

• 5+ years experience working with Node.JS for back end engineering

• Experience with distributed technologies such as Cassandra, Elastic Search, or MongoDB

• Experience with modern relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, and Redshift

• Experience with deploying clustered web services

• Experience using modern build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Docker, etc.

At this time, Capital One will sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.