Director, Software Engineering

Capital One • McLean, VA

112d • $263,900 - $328,500

About The Position

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 bring solid experience in databases, API development, and cloud computing. You are proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, Rust or Typescript, and demonstrate strong collaboration skills to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and product managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 7 years’ experience in software development.
• At least 5 years’ experience in people management.

Nice To Haves

• 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 directly managing engineering teams.
• 4+ years of experience in AI, Data Science, or Machine Learning with hands-on experience in AI/ML workflows including ingesting and transforming data.
• 2+ years of experience in developing Generative AI models and frameworks (OpenAI family, open source LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)).
• 5+ years of experience in Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused advanced software engineers passionate about tackling challenging problems for customers.
• Provide guidance and perform software development work to ensure solutions are properly engineered and maintained to support customer needs.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Spearhead workstream execution, ensuring robust process and project delivery management.
• 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.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree