Python Job: Associate, Software Engineer (OR039569)

Our Capital One Software Studio.

Since 2014, Capital One Canada’s software studio has grown from a team of 10 to a team of over 250. We’re passionate about what we do, and we’re always on the lookout for people who want to make a difference in the world of credit through technology. We’re obsessed with doing the right thing, and we achieve that by finding innovative ways to better serve our customers.

We’re searching for engaged and motivated people at the Associate Level for our Arcus Engineering Enablement team. We want someone who has a passion for making engineers’ lives better.

Working with us.

How do we do things at Capital One? We listen — to our people, and to our customers. We change with the times, currently working remotely with plans to move to a flexible hybrid model (remote and/or in-office) in the future. A flexible hybrid working model is one that creates the opportunity to match the work that we do to the environment that best supports that work. We recognize that everyone has a unique working pattern so we’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements that will best accommodate you.

At Capital One Canada the health and safety of our associates, customers and communities are our highest priorities and as a result, our offices are currently closed. When and how we transition from virtual to flexible hybrid will be guided by local government and health authority guidance.

We want our associates to have a voice, and we’re committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. We give everyone a seat at the table, bringing together different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences to help challenge the status quo and create the best outcomes for everyone.

We’re focused on helping associates live well – physically, financially and emotionally. When you join us, we support you and those who are most important to you, offering full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents. We’ve designed our benefits program to be flexible, comprehensive and consistent across our organization. From health and fitness centres and discounts, to training and professional development programs – and much more – you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.

A Day in the life of an Enablement Engineer

At Capital One, we do DevOps differently, our team sees our goal as empowering our feature teams to deliver well-engineered and well-managed solutions by automating away the goo. Our team helped build the CI/CD framework that’s become the standard for the entire engineering organization. Our team builds tools with Developer Experience at their heart and that software quality and craftsmanship forms the foundation of anything we build. We advocate for best practices across the Canada division and the Enterprise at large. We design solutions together and consider everyone’s input regardless of title. For a small team we have a big impact while remembering to have fun!

New or early in your Software Development career? Our team is a cordial team that deeply cares about each other but also Software Craftsmanship, code quality, and developer experience. We believe in mentoring our new members so they can accelerate their software development career and learn more in 1 year than in 10 at other companies? Have you ever wanted to see what it takes to build truly great tools that empower developers to ship awesome products to the AWS cloud? Then you’ve come to the right place!

What we build.

Here are a few ways we’re helping people take control of their credit:

• Helping customers view and monitor their credit scores with Credit Keeper

• Enabling customers to view and edit their Personal Information directly in the Mobile App

• Providing customers 100% certainty which credit cards they’ll be approved for before they apply, by using Quick Check™

We’re all-in on the cloud and leaders in the adoption of open source, RESTful APIs, microservices, and containers. We build our own products and release them with a speed and agility that allows us to get new customer experiences to market quickly. And, as a founder-led company, we’re inspired to make, break, do, and do good. So, let’s do something great together.

Want to learn more? Check out life at Capital One in the Software Studio!

Responsibilities:

Our team, Arcus, has a very broad mandate, which makes this opportunity appropriate for individuals at any stage in their career. If you are interested in being part of this team, please apply regardless of level. For this position we are willing to re-scope/re-level appropriately for the selected associate.

• Participate in designing and building tools with a strong focus on developer experience, engineering excellence and software craftsmanship.

• Take our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practice to the next level by leveraging and building on OSS tools that run in the AWS Cloud.

• Automate away routine and repetitive tasks with well written and well tested tools.

• Provide support for the Canada engineering teams by troubleshooting and resolving software, pipeline, and infrastructure related issues with an eye to automating those issues away.

• Help us advocate and expand engineering best practices, software resiliency, secure coding practices, and chaos engineering through opportunities to give presentations, write blog posts, and other communication channels.

• Explore and evaluate new and emerging software tools, technologies, and practices.

• Embrace You Build it, You Own it practices owning responsibility for maintaining and
  operating the software we develop.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of experience building software following at least some software engineering best practices (well-tested, CI/CD pipelines, SOLID principles, built with maintainability and extensibility in mind).

• At least 1 year of experience working in a team environment, understanding the importance of mutual respect, empathy, and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard and problems are brought up early and often.

• Desire to make engineers’ lives better.

• Hands-on experience authoring tools/scripts to automate tedious tasks, like deployment, using a high level programming language(s) (Python, Ruby, GoLang, Javascript/Node.js, Java, etc).

• Hands-on experience providing support to Engineers, i.e. troubleshooting failed builds, troubleshooting dev/qa/prod issues.

Preferred Qualifications
(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job)

• Experience using continuous integration tools like Jenkins and Jenkins shared libraries.

• Working experience building, configuring and deploying applications to AWS or other cloud apps like GCP, Azure, Private cloud etc.

• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban) managing own workload and tasks effectively through issue tracking systems (JIRA/GitHub/etc).

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology.

About Capital One Canada

We've been helping millions of Canadians for over 20 years by providing them with access to credit when others would not, and helping them build or rebuild their credit history. We're on a journey to put our customers first, and keep them there, by building modern technology solutions to simplify and humanize the world of credit cards for millions of Canadians. We have all the positive energy of a startup, with the advantages of a big company.

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