Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Technology Graduate
Salary: £45,000 in Nottingham or £50,000 in London plus a £5,000 joining bonus and other benefits
Location: Nottingham or London
Start date: 8th September 2025
Eligibility: Open to any final year students graduating in 2025, or those who have graduated in 2024. (This includes undergraduates, masters and Ph D students)
Sponsorship: We’re able to sponsor if you currently have the right to work in the UK (including student/graduate visas)
Closing date: 4th November 2024 (subject to close early)
As we recruit on a rolling basis we recommend applying as soon as you can

Using technology to drive real and meaningful change. That's one good thing.
At Capital One, we're on a mission: to change credit – one good thing at a time. You might think of us as a credit card company. But the truth is, we're just as much a technology business. And we're here to make a positive difference – to our customers, our colleagues and community.

One of the happy consequences of making finance easier for our customers is that Capital One is an inspiring place to launch your career. Join us, and you can expect early responsibility as you take on meaningful work in collaborative teams. We’ve got a great track record of hiring graduates and enabling them to reach their full potential. Just look at our CEO, Lucy Hagues. She started as a graduate and now leads the UK business. And that’s just one of many success stories.

We are committed to creating teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone, and would particularly love to hear from you if you identify with an under-represented group in our industry, such as women, the LGBTQ+ community and ethnic minority candidates.

Technology at Capital One
Our Tech teams challenge the status quo and make an impact on millions of customers every single day. And that's what makes a career in technology here like nowhere else. During the two year Graduate programme you will be able to rotate into three different teams, which will give you a broad and varied experience, allowing you to hone in your skills and strengths before choosing which area you’d like to explore more.

Your rotations will be within our core tech teams. You could be working on customer experience and journeys across our apps and website, creating backend APIs alongside our Services teams. You could be working with the Data teams that ensure all the information we store is safe and secure, but ready to be accessed at a moment's notice. Or with the Cloud Productivity Engineering teams as we finish our migration to AWS. You may also have the option to rotate outside of tech after your first rotation, into another business area if there are any other areas you would like to explore.

Being a graduate at Capital One isn’t just about your technical skills. There's huge scope for personal development as well. Whether you see yourself as a future leader, a subject matter expert or something in between, you'll have a manager, mentor and buddy to support you, as you carve a career path that's perfect for you.

What you’ll need
Coding skills (in any language) are important, but you don't need a background in Computer Science. We've hired graduates from Psychology, Maths and many other disciplines. Because you'll be working across multiple channels, we’ll want to see the flexibility and aptitude for learning it takes to master lots of different tools and technologies.

As much as we will be looking at your current coding skills, we also want to see your potential and strengths. We understand this may be your first role, or that you might not have experience within a professional tech environment. And that’s okay, we don’t expect you to be an accomplished developer – just enthusiastic and a quick learner.

The Recruitment Process
To ensure a flexible and accessible process, every stage will be conducted virtually. You'll also have a dedicated recruiter to support you throughout and answer any questions you might have.

Step 1: After your initial application, if you meet the eligibility criteria you will be sent out online testing to complete, which consists of a coding assessment and a behavioural assessment.

Step 2: Next up, you will be invited to complete a one way video interview, looking at your motivations for the role and some examples where you’ve shown soft skills that we’re looking for.

Step 3: You’ll get to (virtually) meet with two members of our tech team during the assessment day, which consists of a pair programming exercise and a presentation and strengths based interview.

Step 4: The final interview, you will be invited to (virtually) meet with one of our Senior Software Managers, and if successful we’ll offer you a place to join our Tech team!

What’s in it for you?

• Exciting (and diverse) opportunities for career development
  
• Outstanding learning and development through our Capital One Develop UK training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
  
• Core benefits including a pension scheme, bonus, generous holidays and private medical insurance
  
• Flexible benefits including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
  
• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to support and inspire you, including a fully serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and games rooms
  
• Plenty of volunteering opportunities to give back to the community through our corporate social responsibility programmes
  
• Regular social events ran by our Grad Comm team, as well as an annual company-wide summer festival
  
• You can even help to shape how our early careers programmes look for future graduates by joining one of our working groups or becoming a buddy/mentor yourself
  

Where and how you'll work
This is a permanent position and based in either our Nottingham or London office.

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and can work from home on Monday and Friday. Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we’re open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What you should know about how we recruit
We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right (and the smart) thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and up Reach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
  
• Out Front – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
  
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
  
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
  
• Empow HER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
  
• Enabled - dedicated group for disability and neurodiversity, to improve the working life of all associates
  
• Green Team - Passionate about sustainability, on a mission to help Capital One UK improve its environmental impacts
  

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.


Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.