Director, Software Engineer (Global Payment Network)

About the role

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you will work across the full stack—from customer-facing web and mobile applications built with modern open-source frameworks, to highly available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java systems and machine learning models leveraging leading Big Data techniques. You will lead Senior Lead Engineers building the resilient, ultra-low-latency backbone of future global commerce within a 100% cloud-native environment committed to engineering excellence and aggressive adoption of cutting-edge AI tooling (including Claude Code, Windsurf, and custom AI agents).

Responsibilities

• 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
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions using full-stack development tools and technologies within and across Agile teams
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
• Encourage innovation, cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
• Work across teams to improve the velocity of your own and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Break down existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in people management

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of experience in Agile practices
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Skills

• Emerging and traditional technologies including: Node.js, Java, Go, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

Pay

Salaries vary by location and are as follows for full-time roles:

• Houston, TX: $244,700 – $279,200
• McLean, VA: $269,100 – $307,200
• Plano, TX: $244,700 – $279,200
• Riverwoods, IL: $244,700 – $279,200

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.