Senior Lead Software Engineer
Capital One · Richmond, VA
$229,900–$286,200from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Richmond, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on a fraud-detection engineering team that builds real-time, high-throughput pipelines and services for evaluating credit card transactions as they occur. The work spans distributed microservices, machine learning feature engineering, and agentic data-analysis tooling, using Java, Python, Go, and AWS. The position also carries a leadership dimension, guiding a team of engineers and contributing to architectural and delivery decisions across multiple projects.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,700 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,000–2,550
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $154,930 (middle half $123,720–$176,230). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists multiple office locations with different salary bands: McLean, VA ($229,900–$262,400), New York, NY ($250,800–$286,200), and Richmond, VA ($209,000–$238,500). The comp range reported here spans the lowest minimum to the highest maximum across all US locations.
The Basic Qualifications require 'at least one of' Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js — Java is listed first and is the team's primary language per the stack description, but any of the listed alternatives satisfies the gate. All are captured under a single skill with alternatives.
Docker and Kubernetes appear in the 'What You'll Do' narrative section (not under Basic or Preferred Qualifications), so they are marked as preferred rather than hard gates.
SQL, Node.js, and Scala also appear only in the narrative 'What You'll Do' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
'Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity' (preferred) is captured as LLMs — the posting describes capabilities beyond basic code completion, pointing to generative/LLM-based tooling.
The role includes 1+ years of people management as a preferred qualification, suggesting a tech-lead/player-coach profile rather than a pure people-manager role; the primary day-to-day work remains hands-on software engineering, so 15-1252 is the correct SOC.
The title 'Senior Lead' maps to the Senior band; the 6-year minimum experience requirement and scope (leading a portfolio and team) are consistent with Senior.
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