Staff Software Engineer - Capital One Travel Tech - Backend

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,

Staff Software Engineer - Capital One Travel Tech - Backend

About Capital One Canada.

For 30 years, we’ve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible, simple, intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit, because we believe in people — in our customers, in our associates, and in talent like you!

About the Team

At Capital One, we are entirely disrupting the travel and expense (T&E) industry by bringing our tech fully in-house and building the next generation of our travel ecosystem. With Capital One Business Travel (COBT) scaling rapidly, our integration with Brex is the catalyst propelling us from serving small businesses to powering enterprise giants. As a Senior Engineer, you will be at the epicenter of this game-changing integration, architecting seamless connections across Brex, expense systems, and COBT to win the top of the market. Whether you are advancing our multi-billion-dollar platform, owning full booking journeys, or implementing cutting-edge Applied AI, your code will directly impact millions. Come solve complex, high-volume engineering challenges and redefine the future of corporate travel.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a dynamic team throughout the Software Development Life Cycle

• Act as a tech lead developer owning technical design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform, fault tolerant application systems

• Continuously improve software engineering developer experience; identify gaps in existing internal framework and tools and contribute

• Establish Engineering best practices; identify and establish best practices and standards, such as code review standards.

• Technical expertises and Problem solving; define technical standards and providing technical support to ensure Engineering best practices are consistently met

• Architecture ownership - apply strong understanding of how evolving technology affects domain, follow High Level Design (HLD) methodology and contribute to HLD

• Provide mentorship to junior and intermediate associates through engineering best practises and standards

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of hands-on development experience preferably using Java, Python, Go or other object-oriented programming languages

• At least 6 years of experience with application and/or data design, architecture and development

• Experience with AWS (highly preferred) or other cloud products (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

• Experience providing mentorship to Junior/Intermediate Associates and guidance to technical and business stakeholders