Senior Director of Software Engineering: AI Dev Experience

Socket.dev; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering, Developer Experience, to lead multiple engineering teams and drive AI tooling strategy in a cloud-native environment. You will shape the AI context and grow capabilities across the developer ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, and advance full-stack practices while promoting innovation, scalability, and inclusive engineering communities on AWS and microservice platforms.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple software engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on technical and professional development.
• Collaborate with product managers on capabilities and testing.
• Drive software engineering practices improvements.
• Design and support full-stack solutions across microservices and AWS.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile practices

Full-stack

AI tooling

AWS

Team management

Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Node.js

Java

Go

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL

Relational DB

Hadoop

Chef

Maven

iOS

Android

AWS

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering, Developer Experience, to lead multiple engineering teams and drive AI tooling strategy in a cloud-native environment. You will shape the AI context and grow capabilities across the developer ecosystem.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, and advance full-stack practices while promoting innovation, scalability, and inclusive engineering communities on AWS and microservice platforms.