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Senior Director, Software Engineering

United States, McLean Employment contract 286200.00 - 392000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 22, 2026
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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. This role will lead the Software Delivery Governance outcome as part of our Developer Experience team. This outcome focuses on strengthening and driving forward our Software Governance here at Capital One. Ensuring that processes like the Software Development Lifecycle and its attendant policies and procedures continue to serve the Software Engineering community at Capital One. Modernizing our approach to Software Governance at this pivotal moment in time is essential. This team will be at the nexus of integrating AI and Human developer workflows in a well-managed way.

Job Responsibility

  • 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

Requirements

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

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
  • 13+ years of experience in software development
  • 8+ years of experience in Agile practices

What we offer

  • performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
  • comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

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