Senior Director, Software Eng — Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 286,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused teams across web, mobile, and backend systems. You’ll drive architecture, foster innovation, and mentor engineers while aligning with product goals and agile practices.

Responsibilities include shaping microservice architectures, deploying to AWS, guiding talent development, and collaborating with product managers to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field required.
• Extensive software development experience with leadership background.
• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams in Agile environments.

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 full-stack solutions across tools and technologies.
• Lead craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions.
• Stay current with tech trends, experiment with new technologies, and mentor others.
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, and teamwork across teams.
• Improve velocity and cross-team collaboration.
• Lead efforts to deploy applications into AWS environments.
• Break monolithic apps into microservices and build new microservices.

Skills

Node.js

Java

Go

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Hadoop

Chef

Maven

iOS

Android

AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Cloud Infrastructure

Hadoop

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused teams across web, mobile, and backend systems. You’ll drive architecture, foster innovation, and mentor engineers while aligning with product goals and agile practices.

Responsibilities include shaping microservice architectures, deploying to AWS, guiding talent development, and collaborating with product managers to deliver scalable solutions.