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
Basic Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
7+ years 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
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Mobile Engineer 5
New York, NY: $250,800 - $286,200 for Mobile Engineer 5
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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