Senior Director, AI-Driven Software Engineering

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 modern, cloud-native technologies such as Java, GO, node.js, React, NoSQL databases, AI Agents, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure. We value polyglot leaders capable of navigating a diverse and evolving stack, including traditional systems.

Financial Core Tech is the engine behind Capital One’s financial integrity. We build and scale the mission-critical enterprise platforms that record every customer transaction with 100% precision. As part of the Prometheus Financial Core (PFC) team, you will empower our lines of business to innovate at speed—building the infrastructure that allows us to launch next-generation financial products safely and seamlessly for millions of customers.

Areas of Focus

Leadership & People

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Break existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

Process & Improvement

• Continuously improve software engineering practices, leading the transformation to AI-native development practices
• Work to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 1+ years of experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, Github Copilot) to accelerate software delivery

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

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.