Director, Software Engineering

Capital One; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 182,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead teams in developing cutting-edge technology solutions. This role emphasizes a people-first approach, fostering a collaborative culture, and driving innovation within the financial services sector. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in software engineering, agile practices, and cloud computing. With a commitment to employee well-being and professional development, this organization offers a supportive work environment and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the industry. Join a team that values diversity, inclusion, and excellence in engineering.

Benefits

Work From Home allowance

Mental health coverage up to $3000

Tuition subsidies up to $5000

Full coverage for spouses and dependents

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and 7+ years in people management.
• Experience leading teams in an agile environment and managing other managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to develop foundational technology capabilities for web and mobile applications.
• Mentor engineers and build a culture of accountability and psychological safety.

Skills

Software Engineering

People Management

Agile Practices

Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Configuration Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

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

Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

About Capital One Canada.

For over 20 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!

Working at Capital One.

Enjoy a hybrid work environment, with 3 days in the office. Build a comfortable workspace with our one-time, Work From Home allowance and enjoy our head office located conveniently across the street from Union Station.

Live well—physically, financially and emotionally. Receive support for you and those who are most important to you, with full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. With up to $3000 in mental health coverage and up to $5000 in tuition subsidies per year—and much more—you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life. When you join us, we support you and those who are most important to you, offering full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. We’ve designed our benefits program to be flexible, comprehensive and consistent across our organization.

A day in the life of a Capital One Director of Software Engineering.

You’ll lead the teams in and drive the mission and vision of the Engineering organization focused on developing foundational technology capabilities that accelerate the pace deliveries for customer-facing web and mobile applications. We are excited to write the next chapter of engineering excellence through investment in Site Reliability, Developer Experience and Developer Tooling to elevate the technology offerings and business opportunities. We have a diverse ecosystem of highly-available RESTful microservices and streaming real-time systems hosted on leading edge AWS Cloud assets. Our applications leverage open source frameworks and strong software engineering principles that offer a diverse array of challenging, fun, and impactful problems in scalability, monitoring, and automation capabilities. We are looking for a servant leader whose people-first approach and engineering mindset elevates the safe and collaborative culture of the teams and enables delivery of excellence.

If you are a true technologist at heart with the ability and business acumen to partner with business clients in a way that inspires them to challenge the status quo and want to provide an inspiring and compelling working environment that allows your engineering team to push the digital boundaries within the Financial Services industry.

At Capital One, we recognize the competitive advantage of psychological safety and ensure all our teams thrive. Bring yourself, your passions, curiosity, an open mind, and experiences and let’s have a chat!

Responsibilities:

• Lead with humility and grow talented engineering who are building the next level of engineering capabilities in Developer Experience, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in your teams
• Raise accountability and strive to build a culture that continuously raises the bar for excellence
• Build a strong sense of psychological safety on your teams and adjacent teams
• Engage with stakeholders to define strategic imperatives and execute roadmaps that create original digital customer products and services
• Work within and across agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of industry leading development tools and technologies
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, foster diversity and inclusion, challenge the status quo, and leverage cutting-edge technologies, and offer, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization
• Leverage and and contribute to the open source community
• Partner with leaders across the company to architect, design and develop enterprise platforms, including large scale data and machine learning applications
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• At Least 10 years of experience in software engineering
• At Least 7 years of experience in people management
• At Least 3 years of experience leading multiple teams within an agile environment
• At Least 1 year of experience managing other managers including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning
• Demonstrated experience and success pursuing best practices for teams of software engineers
• Bachelor’s Degree
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job)

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 13+ years’ of experience in software development
• 8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools
• Experience with Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience leading horizontal DevOps/Developer tooling teams
  
  

We may use your information for automated decision making. We may, for certain purposes, render a decision based exclusively on automated processing of your personal information as a part of the candidate screening process.

Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at [e-mail]. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to [e-mail]

Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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