Senior Director, FinTech Software Engineering

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One Cambridge seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering customer-facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and large-scale data systems in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, partnering with product managers, driving best practices, and evolving architectures toward microservices and AWS cloud deployments. Strong tech breadth plus leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 7+ years of experience in people management.

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.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies.
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions.
• Stay current with tech trends, experiment with new technologies, participate in communities, and mentor others.
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, and teamwork, while improving velocity across teams.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

Tools

node.js

Java

GO

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Hadoop

Chef

Maven

iOS

Android

AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

Microservices

Job description

Capital One Cambridge seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering customer-facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and large-scale data systems in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, partnering with product managers, driving best practices, and evolving architectures toward microservices and AWS cloud deployments. Strong tech breadth plus leadership is essential.