FinTech Software Engineering Director Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering for Finance Tech. You will lead multiple teams delivering customer facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and backend Java-based systems, using cutting-edge open source frameworks and AWS cloud.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, improve engineering practices, and steer end-to-end delivery across full-stack technologies, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years in software engineering with 7+ years in leadership.
• Experience delivering scalable systems and leading multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
• Mentor the development of engineers on your team.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and tests.
• Improve software engineering practices continuously.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support full-stack solutions in Agile teams.
• Lead availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions.
• Stay current with tech trends and mentor others in the engineering community.
• Foster innovation, inclusion, and cross-team collaboration.
• Drive velocity improvements across teams.
• Lead deployment of apps into AWS and break monoliths into microservices.

Skills

node.js

Java

Go

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

NoSQL

Relational databases

Hadoop

Chef

Maven

iOS

Android

AWS

Cloud Platforms

Agile

AI in finance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in CS/SE

Tools

AWS

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering for Finance Tech. You will lead multiple teams delivering customer facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and backend Java-based systems, using cutting-edge open source frameworks and AWS cloud.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, improve engineering practices, and steer end-to-end delivery across full-stack technologies, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and innovation.