Director, Software Engineering - FinTech & AI-Driven Apps

Hobbsnews; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering in New York to lead a set of product-focused engineering teams spanning web, mobile, and back-end services. You will guide architecture, review code, and champion scalable, reliable systems across microservices and data-driven components in AWS.

The role requires 7+ years in software development with 5+ years in leadership; you will partner with product managers to shape capabilities and testing, while advancing Agile practices and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degrees preferred.
• At least 7 years’ software development experience.
• At least 5 years’ experience in people management.
• Experience leading teams of engineers and product-focused squads.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Work with Agile teams to design, develop, test, and deploy full-stack solutions.
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions.
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with new technologies, and mentor others.
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, outside-the-box thinking, teamwork and diversity.
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
• Break existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures.

Skills

People management

Software development

Agile practices

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Java

Node.js

REST

Spark

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering in New York to lead a set of product-focused engineering teams spanning web, mobile, and back-end services. You will guide architecture, review code, and champion scalable, reliable systems across microservices and data-driven components in AWS.

The role requires 7+ years in software development with 5+ years in leadership; you will partner with product managers to shape capabilities and testing, while advancing Agile practices and