Hybrid Director, Software Engineering

at Capital One

• Job title: Director, Software Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $239,900 - $301,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Richmond, United States

About the role

• Director of Software Engineering at Capital One overseeing product-focused teams. Leading engineering solutions and actively mentoring engineers for innovative software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused advanced software engineers
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers
• Spearheads workstream execution, ensuring robust process and project delivery management
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years’ experience in software development
• At least 5 years’ experience in people management
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred)
• 10+ years’ of experience in software development (preferred)
• 7+ years of experience in directly managing engineering teams (preferred)
• 4+ years of experience in AI, Data Science, or Machine Learning (preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in developing Generative AI models (preferred)
• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices (preferred)

Benefits

• Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.