Director, Software Engineering - Shopping (remote-eligible)

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +1 · Remote

Director of Software Engineering role at Capital One Shopping, focusing on leading multiple teams to build and launch customer-facing web and services. The role involves people management, mentoring, and driving software engineering practices within an Agile and AWS environment, with an emphasis on microservices architecture and scalability. While ML models are mentioned as a technology used, the core craft of the role is software engineering leadership and product delivery, not AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
  2. Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
  3. Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
  4. Continuously improve software engineering practices
  5. Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7 years’ experience in software development
  • 5 years’ experience in people management

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
  • 10+ years’ of experience in software development
  • 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices
  • 3+ years’ of experience in launching product from the ground up