Software Engineering Manager – LONDON

Company: Capital One UK
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Location: London
Job Description:

Salary: £62,000 – 102,000 per year

Requirements

  • We are looking for someone with previous experience leading teams, growing engineers, and handling conflict constructively and collaboratively.
  • We are looking for someone who has previously worked as an experienced software engineer and is comfortable with technology, architectural decisions, and technical trade-offs.
  • We are looking for someone with previous experience in our backend tech stack: Java, Spring, and AWS.
  • We value a strong advocate for tight feedback loops, including automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and frequent releases.
  • We are looking for someone with a balance of self-reflection and bias for action.
  • We are looking for someone with strong ownership and excellent communication.
  • We are looking for someone with a drive for positive, proactive impact.

Responsibilities

  • We coach and nurture our engineers, making a material positive difference to their careers and business impact.
  • We provide technical leadership, staying close to the teams work, setting a high bar for engineering, understanding technical risks, and influencing architectural thinking and decisions.
  • We bring context and purpose to the team, ensuring people understand the why behind the work and helping shape our culture.
  • We own ways of working and delivery, partnering with our Product Owner and Change Delivery Lead to shape roadmaps and lead frequent delivery of high-quality software in a complex regulatory environment.
  • We own one or more business applications, keeping them well-managed and compliant with the businesss high standards.
  • We represent the interests and context of the business to our engineers and help improve the environment beyond the immediate team.

Technologies

  • AWS
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • Support
  • Java
  • Product Owner
  • Spring
  • Cloud
  • Network
  • Security

More

We are Capital One and we are hiring a Software Engineering Manager for our London office at White Collar Factory. This is a permanent hybrid role with three days a week in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, immediate access to core benefits, salary sacrifice pension scheme with up to 10% company contribution, generous holiday entitlement, private medical insurance, flexible benefits, learning resources, and an open-plan workspace with facilities including a rooftop running track and Workshop Coffee café. We are committed to building diverse, inclusive teams and support a range of internal networks and employee groups, including REACH, OutFront, Mind Your Mind, Women in Tech, EmpowHER, and Enabled. We are a founder-led company on a mission to bring ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking, and we value collaboration, openness, perspective, and doing the right thing.

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Posted: June 24th, 2026