Capital One’s Card Tech Engineering Organization is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build exceptional software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. The Director must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-focused solutions in an iterative methodology.

As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high-level, strategic discussions. You are a naturally curious technologist and stay on top of emerging trends, including prototyping of nascent technologies. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities.

As a Director of Software Engineering, you will build and lead a highly talented software engineering team to modernize legacy system to unlock innovation, speed to market and real time processing.  This leader must be a deep technical expert and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the engineering practices, up skill themselves with the industry innovations, trends and practices. 

Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering highly available, scalable and resilient consumer-facing payment systems, understands the CICD pipelines, adopts enterprise tools and processes, and a passion for creating market-leading software for millions of customers. 

Team Description:  
Capital One Trade Credit delivers a full-service AR solution that supports the complete B2B purchase-to-payment experience. That includes everything from credit assessment and terms decisioning, to invoicing and payment processing, to servicing, collections and cash application. This allows our partners to focus on delighting their customers and growing their business.  As a Director of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for driving our tech transformation across our customer and partner experiences

You will:

• 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 leaders to define the strategy, roadmap and destination architecture

• Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet our customer needs

•  Continuously improve software engineering practices

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

• At least 5 years of experience in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Golang

• At least 3 years of experience in public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree

• 10+ years’ of experience in software development

• 4+ years of experience with AWS

• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.