Mobile Engineer 5
About The Position
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, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. As a Mobile Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of driving a major transformation across the enterprise. At Capital One, the iOS and Android platforms are recognized as an opportunity to reach our customers in unique, personal and engaging ways. Nothing is off-limits as we explore exciting ways to take advantage of the full ecosystem of mobile devices, including Watch, TV, and whatever future developments Apple or Google creates. Our engineers are provided with top-of-the-line MacBook Pros, multiple high-end monitors and the necessary tooling to develop the best possible products with the least amount of friction. We operate in small, productive Agile teams and use the best industry tools to collaborate cross-functionally.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 6 years of professional experience in software engineering, mobile architectural design and project execution across multiple teams (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 6 years of experience building native mobile applications for Android or iOS
- At least 3 years of experience architecting or leading the development of federated native mobile applications
Nice To Haves
- Significant experience building native mobile applications for Android or iOS
- Proven experience with modern native UI frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose)
- Proven experience with designing and building automated testing suites for mobile (e.g., Swift Testing, XCUI, JUnit, Espresso)
- Proven experience with modular architecture and modern state management patterns
- Proven experience with performance tuning and optimization on native mobile platforms
- Experience providing technical leadership for a large product area, influencing its technical vision and roadmap
- Experience leading the design of multi-team components or contributing to shared SDKs
- Experience developing and scaling client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and defining efficient data-fetching strategies using protocols like gRPC/Protobuf
- Working knowledge of on-device ML frameworks (e.g., CoreML, TensorFlow Lite)
- Expertise in release health indicators, metrics-driven staged rollout, and feature flag strategies
- Expertise with agentic AI coding tools and developer productivity patterns
Responsibilities
- Partner with software engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
- Partner with product leaders to influence multi-quarter engineering roadmaps (e.g., new capability builds, performance optimization, platform modernization) ensuring alignment with broader business goals
- Architect, build, and maintain core components and shared libraries that act as a force multiplier for multiple teams within your product area
- Contribute to standards for cross-platform consistency, scalability, and accessibility across mobile experiences
- Serve as a subject matter expert in critical areas like mobile performance, networking, or platform-specific UI frameworks, influencing standards across teams
- Partner with infrastructure and backend teams to define and improve mobile CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering practices, standardizing release practices
- Define strategies for leveraging agentic AI tools across multiple teams, including specialized agents, skills and tools built on open standards (e.g., Model Context Protocol), to standardize workflows
- Mentor and guide senior engineers in building AI-native workflows, shaping the next generation of technical leaders proficient in agentic coding
- Apply mastery of the modern mobile ecosystem (including deep platform-specific capabilities and advanced UI patterns) to make complex, high-leverage, hands-on technical contributions that solve the most challenging problems within your product area
Benefits
- comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
