Senior Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience)

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Performance-based incentives

Inclusive benefits

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering customer-facing web and mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and big data back-end systems. You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, and drive agile practices across the organization.

You will push innovation in AI tooling, shape the AI context strategy, and evolve development workflows to reduce bottlenecks and accelerate time-to-market.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of software engineers.
• Mentor engineers in professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers on capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Improve software engineering practices across agile teams.
• Design and support full-stack solutions across varied technologies.
• Drive services architecture from monoliths to microservices on AWS.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Agile practices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in CS or SWE

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Maven

Chef

Job description

Senior Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience)

As a Capital One Senior Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few. Our team builds the enterprise's premier engineering intelligence platform, empowering our entire technology organization to be fundamentally data-driven. Acting as an active insights engine for everyone from front-line developers to executive leadership, this platform delivers standardized, actionable metrics across the SDLC. By surfacing critical insights into engineering efficiency, development workflows, and modern tooling adoption, we equip teams with the exact analytics needed to pinpoint structural bottlenecks, eliminate developer friction, and accelerate time-to-market. In this position, you will lead "Developer Experience for AI" here at Capital One. You will be evolving how Capital One developers engage with AI by delivering new AI tools, maturing the AI ecosystem, developing Capital One's AI Context Strategy, and more.

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
• Work within and across Agile teams to 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
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 7 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 13+ years of experience in software engineering
• 8+ years of experience in Agile practices
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Salary

• McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
• New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
• Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
• Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Benefits

• Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
• Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Eligibility

Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC). At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.