Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on cutting‑edge AI‑based applications to power the future of marketing. You will be tasked with leading teams to build a fully automated agentic flow to eliminate inefficiencies from the campaign creation process. Your teams will lead on instrumenting various marketing flows within a campaign (think distributed tracing) to simplify attribution, tracking, and troubleshooting a campaign. This is an opportunity to redefine what enterprise tooling for marketing looks like in the age of LLMs. The main technologies you will be working with are Python, Java, Vue.js, Postgres, Dynamo DB, vector stores like Milvus, and familiarity with AWS‑based infrastructure deployments.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 and 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

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
• 5+ years' of experience in Agile practices

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

Salary ranges: McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200; New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100; Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200; San Francisco, CA: $293,600 - $335,100. This role is also eligible to earn performance‑based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long‑term incentives (LTI).

Capital One is an equal‑opportunity employer (EOE, including disability and veteran) 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 applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.