Senior Director Software Engineering

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VAChicago, ILPlano, TXRiverwoods, IL
Salary: $286,200–$326,700 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $223k

This role $306k

$142k most similar roles pay here $346k

This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $187,911–$257,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $306k versus about $223k 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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TL;DR · Senior Director Software Engineering

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As a Sr. Director Software Engineering within the Global Payment Network Digital Payments Technology organization, you will lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused teams of software engineers. You will oversee the development of mission-critical systems for domestic and international money movement, including a tokenization platform for secure commerce. Your daily responsibilities include mentoring engineers, improving engineering practices, collaborating with product managers on requirements, and breaking monolithic applications into microservice architectures. You will work with technologies such as Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, and Hadoop, while utilizing frameworks like React and AngularJS. The role involves managing infrastructure in AWS environments and leveraging tools like Chef and Maven. You will ensure the craftsmanship, availability, and scalability of high-volume, low-latency distributed systems that power secure payment rails across various digital platforms.

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 Hadoop NoSQL Relational Databases REST JSON XML Ruby Perl Chef Maven iOS Android Microservices Agile Claude Code Windsurf

What you'll do

Lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams.
Mentor engineers on their professional and technical development.
Collaborate with product managers to define application capabilities and testing scenarios.
Improve software engineering practices and increase team development velocity.
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 cloud environments.
Deconstruct monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices.

What we're looking for

At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
At least 7 years of experience in people management.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering (preferred).
13+ years of experience in software engineering (preferred).
8+ years of experience in Agile practices (preferred).
Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion (preferred).

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