Senior Director, Software Eng — AI Developer Experience

COMFORT SYSTEMS; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead Developer Experience for AI. You will guide multiple teams of product-focused engineers, drive architectural decisions across microservices, and partner with product managers to shape capabilities and testing.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, advancing engineering practices, and deploying scalable solutions on AWS, while fostering innovation and inclusion within a large data-driven engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 9+ years in software engineering.
• 7+ years in people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and tests.
• Improve software engineering practices across teams.
• Design, develop, test, implement and support full-stack solutions.
• Drive microservices architecture and AWS deployments.
• Foster innovation, diversity and learning of new tech.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

People management

Agile practices

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead Developer Experience for AI. You will guide multiple teams of product-focused engineers, drive architectural decisions across microservices, and partner with product managers to shape capabilities and testing.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, advancing engineering practices, and deploying scalable solutions on AWS, while fostering innovation and inclusion within a large data-driven engineering organization.