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We're looking for a Lead Director of Software Engineering who thinks like a founder, executes like a principal engineer, and leads like someone who's done it at the highest levels of the industry.

Position Summary: We're looking for a Lead Director of Software Engineering who thinks like a founder, executes like a principal engineer, and leads like someone who's done it at the highest levels ...

Head of Software

El Segundo, CA · On-site

$269K/yr

Low ego and open-mindedness Preferred : • past founding or early-stage fast-growth startup experience • Experience as a former founder or founding engineer at a successful, fast-moving software ...

Software Engineering Manager

Austin, TX · On-site

$140K - $220K/yr

Now serving thousands of renters, Boom is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting (ex-BCG, Rubicon ... Opportunity We're expanding our engineering team to meet the growing demands of our B2B partners ...

Software Engineer Intern

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$100K - $125K/yr

We are looking for Software Engineering Interns to help develop our reliability platform, with a ... High-agency, customer-centric full-stack experience, e.g. ex-founder or ex-founding engineer.

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

This hire is crucial for adding more bandwidth to the engineering team. What will you be doing ... Active GitHub; demonstrated initiative through side projects/Founder experience Advatix ® , Inc ...

Head of Software

El Segundo, CA · On-site

$220K - $270K/yr

Experience as a former founder or founding engineer at a successful, fast-moving software company, with a track record of standing up a team or discipline from zero. * U.S. citizenship and ability to ...

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$144K - $190K/yr

You will work on performance-critical backend infrastructure, APIs, and SDKs used by engineering ... Previous experience as a founder or co-founder. What We Offer * Competitive salary and meaningful ...

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Sr Director, Software Engineering - Shopping

Mclean, VA • On-site

$286K - $326K/yr

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Posted 24 days ago


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Sr Director, Software Engineering - Shopping

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 development8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

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

Salary
  • Remote (Regardless of Location): $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering
  • McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 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.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com.

All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com.

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.

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