Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Consumer Experience - Capital One

Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Consumer Experience

We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build extremely talented software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. The Senior Director must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer oriented solutions in an iterative methodology.

As a Senior Director, Software Engineering within the Consumer Experience Platform organization, you will own and execute on high priority initiatives while leading teams who create personalized mobile and web experiences and platforms to enable real-time experiences for customers. You will be a strategic leader accountable for driving a cohesive technology roadmap across organizations in collaboration with multiple enterprise partners while ensuring that we build compelling and innovative customer-oriented solutions. Additionally, this leader will attract, recruit, and develop the industry’s best engineering talent.

As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high-level, strategic discussions. You are a naturally curious technologist and stay on top of emerging trends, including hands-on prototyping of nascent technologies. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities.

You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: Java, GO, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, iOS, Android, Machine Learning/AI and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

You will:

• 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 leaders to define the strategy, roadmap and destination architecture.
• Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet our customer needs.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of 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 & 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 9 years experience in software engineering or software development.
• At least 7 years experience in people management.
• At least 5 years of experience with client application development, including web technologies (TypeScript) and mobile frameworks (iOS, Android).
• At least 5 years experience with public cloud technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or software development.
• 8+ years of experience with client application development, including web technologies (TypeScript, GraphQL) and mobile frameworks (iOS, Android).
• 3+ years experience building and owning product workloads with GraphQL at enterprise scale.
• 3+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or other public cloud providers.

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $321,500 - $366,900 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering.

San Francisco and San Jose, California (Hybrid On-Site): $340,500 - $388,700 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

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