Head of Global Payment Platform Engineering

Capital One; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams building customer-facing web and mobile apps, high‑availability RESTful services, and back-end Java systems. You will drive modern tech like Node.js, Java, GO, React, Python, and AWS across cloud-native, microservices, and AI‑enhanced pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, promote best practices, and steer initiatives across Agile teams to accelerate delivery while ensuring resilience,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support solutions using full-stack tools and AWS.
• Break down monolithic apps into microservices and drive scalability.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Mentoring

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Microservices

Cloud-native

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams building customer-facing web and mobile apps, high‑availability RESTful services, and back-end Java systems. You will drive modern tech like Node.js, Java, GO, React, Python, and AWS across cloud-native, microservices, and AI‑enhanced pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, promote best practices, and steer initiatives across Agile teams to accelerate delivery while ensuring resilience,