Director, Software Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $216k
This role $288k
$133k most similar roles pay here $326k

This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $175,500–$255,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $288k versus about $216k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Director, Software Engineer

As a Director, Software Engineer, you will lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused teams while mentoring engineers on their professional and technical development. You will collaborate with product managers to define application capabilities and testing scenarios while improving software engineering practices across Agile teams. Your daily responsibilities include designing, developing, and supporting full-stack solutions, ensuring craftsmanship, availability, and scalability. You will specifically lead efforts to break monolithic applications into microservice architectures and deploy new systems into AWS environments. The role requires expertise in technologies including Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Spark, and NoSQL or relational databases. You will also work with front-end frameworks like React and AngularJS, as well as mobile platforms for iOS and Android. Your work involves building customer-facing web and mobile applications alongside high-availability RESTful microservices and machine learning models using Big Data techniques.

What you'll do

  • Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
  • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of team members.
  • Collaborate with product managers to define application capabilities and testing scenarios.
  • Improve software engineering practices and increase the velocity of engineering teams.
  • Design, develop, test, and support full-stack solutions using Agile methodologies.
  • Ensure the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of all technical solutions.
  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
  • Break existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree required.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred.
  • At least 7 years of experience in software development.
  • 10+ years of experience in software development is preferred.
  • At least 5 years of experience in people management.
  • 5+ years of experience in Agile practices preferred.
  • Experience with technologies including Java, Python, Node.js, Go, and AWS/Cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with full-stack development, microservices architecture, and Big Data tools like Spark.

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