Director of Software Engineering – AI, Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused software teams across web, mobile, and back-end systems. You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers to shape capabilities, and improve engineering practices.

You will drive architecture toward microservices, cloud-based deployments on AWS, and scalable, resilient solutions while staying ahead of tech trends and fostering inclusive teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in software development with leadership experience.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and grow teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple product-focused software teams.
• Mentor engineers on technical and professional development.
• Collaborate with product managers on capabilities and testing.
• Improve software engineering practices and cross-functional collaboration.
• Oversee full-stack design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Drive availability, resilience and scalability of solutions.
• Stay current with tech trends and foster innovation and inclusion.
• Guide deployment of new and existing apps to AWS and microservices shift.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Software engineering

Agile practices

Mentoring

Cloud/AWS

Microservices

Full-stack development

Machine learning

RESTful services

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Node.js

Java

Go

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Spark

Maven

AWS

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused software teams across web, mobile, and back-end systems. You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers to shape capabilities, and improve engineering practices.

You will drive architecture toward microservices, cloud-based deployments on AWS, and scalable, resilient solutions while staying ahead of tech trends and fostering inclusive teamwork.