Sr. Director, Software Engineering

Capital One is the first largest bank to go all in on the public cloud while operating in a complex and highly regulated business environment and has transformed itself into a technology company. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial  products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale.

Still founder-led by Chairman and CEO Richard Fairbank, we dare to dream, disrupt and deliver a better way for our customers, the financial industry and for each other. Our goal is simple – bring ingenuity, simplicity and humanity to an industry ripe for change. 

Capital One India Tech is one of the fastest growing technology teams across Capital One with a bold mission to build large scale platforms, consumer products and advanced capabilities leveraging data and AI /ML technologies. This is a senior individual contributor leadership role spanning across Capital One India Tech organization reporting to the head of technology. 
 

As a Capital One Senior Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, 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 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 & 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 9 years’ experience in software development

• At least 7 years’ experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 13+ years’ of experience in software development

• 8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.