Senior Director, Software Engineering Platform & Cloud

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused engineering teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers to shape capabilities and testing scenarios. The role emphasizes continuous improvement of engineering practices across full-stack solutions, including microservices and cloud deployments.

The position requires extensive experience in software engineering and people leadership, with a drive to stay current on trends, champion

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum 9 years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum 7 years of people management experience.

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.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand desired capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support solutions across full-stack tools and technologies.
• Lead craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions.
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with new technologies, and mentor others.
• Foster innovation, inclusion, and teamwork across teams.
• Improve velocity of your teams and deploy applications to AWS environments.
• Break monoliths into microservices and build new microservices.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Software engineering

Agile practices

Mentoring

AWS

RESTful services

Microservices

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Node.js

Java

GO

AngularJS

React

Python

REST

JSON

XML

Ruby

Perl

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Hadoop

Maven

Chef

AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

iOS

Android

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple product-focused engineering teams, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers to shape capabilities and testing scenarios. The role emphasizes continuous improvement of engineering practices across full-stack solutions, including microservices and cloud deployments.

The position requires extensive experience in software engineering and people leadership, with a drive to stay current on trends, champion