Director, Software Engineering

Job Description

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Director, Software Engineering

We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering who is passionate about growing and sustaining an innovative technology organization while fostering a culture of engineering and operational excellence. This individual will be an engineering leader who enjoys solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment. At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of builders, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.

This position is in the Enterprise team responsible for our consumer facing platform and will be leading our Reliability and Observability efforts focused on improving our cloud failover strategy, invest in tooling and AI driven solutions for anomaly detection. They will help establish SLO and Error budgets for dependent services and conduct frequent GameDay exercises to ensure continued platform health.

As part of this role, you'll work on designing cloud native solutions and will have the opportunity to work on emerging technologies such as: AWS, Java, Python, New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, Swift, Kotlin to name a few.

You will:

Lead multiple delivery teams and coach team through their career development and performance

Develop the technical strategy, roadmap and vision for the platforms you own

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

Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 7 years experience in software engineering or software development

At least 5 years experience in people management

At least 5 years of experience with AWS

At least 3 years of experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s Degree

10 years of experience in software development

6 years of experience with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP)

5 years of experience in Agile practices

3 years of experience in modernizing technology stacks

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.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $269,400 - $307,500 for Director, Software Engineering

San Francisco, California (Hybrid On-Site): $285,400 - $325,700 for Director, Software Engineering

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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