Director, Software Engineering
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Director, Software Engineering

Everything Computer Science

Job Location : New York,NY, USA

Posted on : 2025-09-16T12:37:44Z

Job Description :
Overview

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 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.

Responsibilities
  • Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused advanced software engineers passionate about tackling challenging problems for customers
  • As a Manager of the AI Solutions team, you'll be instrumental in delivering innovative solutions that unify, enrich, and extract insights from various data sources across the enterprise.
  • 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.
Qualifications
  • Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 7 years' experience in software development
  • At least 5 years' experience in people management
  • 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 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

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. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

  • McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Software Engineering
  • New York, NY: $287,800 - $328,500 for Director, Software Engineering
  • Richmond, VA: $239,900 - $273,800 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.

About Capital One

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 (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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.

If you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1- or via email. Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

Capital One Financial is made up of several entities. Position postings in Canada, the United Kingdom, or the Philippines refer to the respective Capital One entity.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools that help generate and enhance job descriptions, and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy.

  • Dice Id: 10225989S
  • Position Id: R225565

Posted 3 days ago

About Capital One

Daring to dream, disrupt, and deliver a better way to bank for customers, Capital One brings ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to the financial industry. The financial services company provides domestic credit and debit cards and offers financing, deposits, and lending activities, delivering great value to people across the country.

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