Senior Software Engineering Manager - Capital One Travel Tech - Full Stack

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

Senior Software Engineering Manager for Capital One Travel Tech, focusing on full-stack development. The role involves leading 2+ teams of engineers to build solutions that reduce fraud and improve customer experience, participating in hands-on development, and driving innovation. Requires significant experience in team leadership, people management, and hands-on software engineering, with a strong understanding of software engineering best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Directly and indirectly lead 2+ teams of engineers to build solutions that help to reduce fraud and improve our customers’ experience
  2. Participate in talent and succession planning, encourage innovation, implement cutting-edge technologies, elevate inclusion, offer out of the box thinking, celebrate teamwork, self-organization and diversity
  3. Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience and scalability of applications within the Software Studio
  4. Bring passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technology, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

Skills

Required

  • At least 4 years of experience leading a team within an agile environment
  • At least 4 years of experience providing direct people leadership including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning
  • At least 10 years of experience as a hands-on software engineer
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices including security, automated testing, continuous delivery (CI/CD), high-availability and system resiliency

Nice to have

  • Experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
  • Experience with full stack software development
  • Exposure to financial/tech industry
  • Bachelor's, Master’s or Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or in related field
  • Experience leading multiple teams
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior business and product stakeholders (Director+) on strategy and roadmaps
  • At least 5 years of experience managing relationships with Business and/or Product stakeholders, and/or external partners
  • At least 4 years of experience leading software engineers creating customer facing and enterprise facing web applications and/or supporting application services
  • At least 10 years of experience contributing to application and/or data design, architecture and development

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 4 years of experience leading a team within an agile environment
  • At least 4 years of experience providing direct people leadership including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning
  • At least 10 years of experience as a hands-on software engineer
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices including security, automated testing, continuous delivery (CI/CD), high-availability and system resiliency