Mobile Engineer 5

Capital One • McLean, VA

1d • $229,900 - $262,400

About The Position

Capital One is hiring a Mobile Engineer to help transform its mobile products and deliver engaging, high-performing experiences for more than 100 million customers. The role works in small, collaborative Agile teams and partners across engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and backend functions. Engineers receive MacBook Pros, high-end monitors, and development tools.

The position combines hands-on mobile engineering with technical leadership across a product area. The engineer will influence multi-quarter roadmaps, architect shared components and libraries, establish cross-platform standards, and serve as a subject matter expert in critical mobile engineering areas. The role also focuses on improving mobile delivery and reliability practices and applying agentic AI tools to engineering workflows, while mentoring senior engineers in AI-native development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, or 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 development of federated native mobile applications.

Nice To Haves

• 7 or more years of experience building native mobile applications for Android or iOS.
• Experience with modern native UI frameworks such as SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose.
• Experience designing and building automated mobile testing suites such as Swift Testing, XCUI, JUnit, or Espresso.
• Experience with modular architecture and modern state management patterns.
• Experience tuning and optimizing performance on native mobile platforms.
• Experience providing technical leadership for a large product area and 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 such as gRPC/Protobuf.
• Working knowledge of on-device machine-learning frameworks such as CoreML or 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 customers.
• Work with product leaders to influence multi-quarter engineering roadmaps and align them with broader business goals.
• Architect, build, and maintain core components and shared libraries for use by multiple teams.
• Contribute to standards for consistency, scalability, and accessibility across mobile experiences.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in areas such as mobile performance, networking, or platform-specific UI frameworks, and influence standards across teams.
• Partner with infrastructure and backend teams to improve mobile CI/CD, observability, reliability engineering, and release practices.
• Define strategies for using agentic AI tools across teams, including specialized agents, skills, and tools built on open standards such as Model Context Protocol.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers in building AI-native workflows and developing agentic coding skills.
• Apply deep knowledge of modern mobile platforms and advanced UI patterns to make hands-on technical contributions to challenging product-area problems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being.
• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior