Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One 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 and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in both emerging and traditional technologies.

Capital One’s Card Decisioning team is responsible to enable our business to manage risk and drive business value across the customer lifecycle by providing real-time, accurate , secure and AI powered decision-making solutions for customer transactions, fraud detection, alerts, credit inquiries and applications across card, lending and banking products.

In this role, you will work with our decisioning platform team to provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to help build a destination platform for capital one. You will be a thought leader in this space to ensure we are building a world class platform that is scalable, resilient, multi-tenant and can support a variety of use cases. 

You will be responsible to lead the teams with setting up the right vision, best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience. You will also closely partner with product partners and other stakeholders to define the strategy that will position Decisioning Platform to be the best in class platform for enterprise users. Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to your direct reports helping them grow in their career at Capital One.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

You will:

• 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 7 years of experience in software development ( Java, Go) 

• At least 5 years of  experience in people management

• At least 7 years of experience with enterprise architecture, data architecture, and design patterns

• At least 7 years of experience in site reliability engineering

• At least 3 years of experience in cloud native technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 10+ years’ of experience in software development

• 7+ years of experience in people management

• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

 

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Richmond,