Senior Director, Software Engineering

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VARichmond, VANew York, NYPlano, TX
Salary: $314,800–$359,300 / yr
Posted: 43 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $206k

This role $337k

$103k most similar roles pay here $387k

This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $171,750–$240,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $337k versus about $206k for comparable roles.

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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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TL;DR · Senior Director, Software Engineering

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As a Senior Director, Software Engineering, you will lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams while mentoring staff on their professional and technical development. You will oversee the design, development, and deployment of high-availability RESTful microservices and web or mobile applications within an Agile framework. The role involves breaking down monolithic architectures into microservices and deploying solutions to AWS environments. You will work with product managers to define capabilities and ensure system resilience and scalability. The technical stack includes Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, AngularJS, React, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, and various database systems like NoSQL and relational databases. This role focuses on building an engineering intelligence platform that provides actionable metrics across the software development life cycle to identify bottlenecks and improve developer workflows for the entire organization.

What does a Software Engineering Director earn?

Median $262275 from 30 postings across 13 companies.

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Skills

AWS Java Go Python Node.js React AngularJS REST NoSQL Hadoop Chef Maven Ruby Perl iOS Android Microservices Agile SDLC JSON XML

What you'll do

Lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams.
Mentor engineers on their professional and technical development.
Design, develop, test, and support full-stack solutions across various technologies.
Ensure the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of all software solutions.
Break existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices.
Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
Improve software engineering practices and team velocity across the organization.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree required.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred.
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
At least 7 years of experience in people management.
8+ years of experience in Agile practices preferred.
Experience with technologies including Java, Go, Node.js, Python, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure.
Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity is preferred.
Experience breaking monolithic applications into microservice architectures is required.

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