Remote Senior Director, Software Engineering - Growth & Leadership

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

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused engineering teams. You will mentor staff, partner with product managers, and drive full-stack solutions across Agile teams. The role emphasizes scalability, innovation, and cloud-based deployments in an inclusive environment.

The position requires deep Java/node.js/go experience and a track record of building resilient architectures, with strong leadership and strategic vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• 9+ years of software development experience.
• 7+ years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement and support full-stack solutions.
• Lead craftsmanship, availability, resilience and scalability of solutions.
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with new technologies and mentor others.
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, teamwork and self-organization.
• Improve velocity across teams and deployment of apps to AWS.
• Break monolithic applications into microservices and build new microservices.

Skills

Java

Node.js

Go

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL

Relational databases

Hadoop

Chef

Maven

iOS

Android

AWS/Cloud

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in CS or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused engineering teams. You will mentor staff, partner with product managers, and drive full-stack solutions across Agile teams. The role emphasizes scalability, innovation, and cloud-based deployments in an inclusive environment.

The position requires deep Java/node.js/go experience and a track record of building resilient architectures, with strong leadership and strategic vision.