Senior Director, Software Eng — Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused teams delivering customer-facing web and mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and backend Java-based systems.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, and drive scalable, resilient architectures in AWS, with a culture of innovation and inclusion. This remote-friendly role offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 9+ years in software development.
• 7+ years in people management.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred.
• 13+ years in software development preferred.
• 8+ years’ experience with Agile practices.

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 on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and mentor other engineers.
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization and diversity.
• Improve velocity across teams and deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
• Break monoliths into microservices and build new microservices.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Cloud technologies

Microservices

Java

Node.js

AWS

Big Data

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Maven

REST APIs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused teams delivering customer-facing web and mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and backend Java-based systems.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, and drive scalable, resilient architectures in AWS, with a culture of innovation and inclusion. This remote-friendly role offers competitive compensation and benefits.