Global Payments Tech Director: Cloud-Native 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 teams building customer-facing web and mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and data-driven back-end systems using Java, Node.js, Python, and cloud-native AWS.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, drive scalable architectures, and advance engineering practices across Agile teams. This is a high-impact, enterprise role with a startup mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of software engineers.
• Mentor and guide engineers on professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and test scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support full-stack solutions.
• Ensure craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Stay current with tech trends and mentor the engineering community.
• Foster innovation, inclusion, and collaboration across teams.
• Improve team velocity and cross-team delivery.
• Lead deployments into AWS environments.
• Decompose monoliths into microservices.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Java

Node.js

Python

GO

React

AngularJS

REST

AWS

Cloud Infrastructure

Maven

Spark

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams building customer-facing web and mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and data-driven back-end systems using Java, Node.js, Python, and cloud-native AWS.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, drive scalable architectures, and advance engineering practices across Agile teams. This is a high-impact, enterprise role with a startup mindset.