Director, Software Engineering

Company: Capital One
Location: Vallejo
Posted on: July 31, 2020

Job Description:

201 Third Street (61049), United States of America, San Francisco, California 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. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.

Director, Software Engineering Director, Software Engineering

Are you excited by the challenge of solving large-scale FinTech problems through innovative engineering and product management? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with open source technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment? Are you obsessed about building robust, highly scalable, available enterprise grade platforms that are the heartbeat for delivering high quality products? At the same time have a great feel for a seamless engaging customer experience? You’re at the right place!

We’re looking for an influential engineering leader to provide strategic direction on initiatives with significant bottom line impact. This role provides a considerable opportunity for ingenuity, as this individual will work as a key leader of an exceptionally talented team, to deliver cutting edge innovation at a massive scale.

We are looking for an independent thinker who makes convincing, evidence-based, consensus oriented decisions. The ideal candidate will devise clear roadmaps to fruition and is comfortable thinking strategically and diving deep; a vanguard leader who can identify opportunities and leverage the team to translate them into live solutions.

What you will need to bring for this position:

A proven passion for building, leading and growing high performing teams in the development and rapid delivery of next-generation digital platform and products

A servant leader that has a history of creating a safe space and inclusive environment fostering diverse views and approaches from the team, coaching and mentoring them to thrive in a dynamic workplace

A history of embracing and incubating emerging technology and open source products

A real passion for building highly resilient, scalable and available platforms, rich reusable foundational capabilities and seamless developer experience while focusing on strategic vision and technology roadmap delivery in an MVP / iterative fast paced approach.

Ability to collaborate with various partners in the tech and startup ecosystems

The ability to seed and extend innovation into the greater organization to develop key talent, consistent with that of a leading technology company

Technical Leadership: the ability to inspire your teammates to think outside the box as they deliver high quality software solutions

Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead the best application engineering talent.

Innovative thinking with a passion for problem-solving

Ability to provide a logical framework to support conclusions and ideas.

Great attitude, team player and energy amplifier. Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and technologies

Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them in ways such that they are communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders, partners and customers, thereby building strong partnerships, consensus and alignment.

Understanding of ways to lead a team developing in an Agile environment

Responsibilities:

Provide hands-on technical leadership to a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle

Co-create a strategic vision for external developer / partner facing highly available platforms and products.

Collaborate with architects, other teams, product owners, and software engineers to drive implementation of robust platform capabilities and experiences.

Exceptional written, oral and interpersonal communication skills to interact and build strong partnerships across organizational boundaries.

Influence with a strong positive attitude: Drive consensus across cross functional leaders and teams

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Conduct design, architecture and code review to ensure compliance with standards

Ability to work independently in a fast paced, unstructured environment

Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives

Maintain records to document program development and revisions

A robust portfolio of shipped code on GitHub or other open Source contributions and experience with distributed/scalable systems is a plus

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 5 years' building and leading full stack (Java / Spring / Go, NodeJS, Javascript) software engineering teams in a fast paced environment

At least 5 years’ experience in leading development of highly available, operationally mature platforms / products

At least 5 years' experience with object-oriented programming, functional programming, and data design

At least 5 years' experience in designing, developing scalable web applications and architectural standards

At least 5 years' experience with cloud computing platforms

At least 3 years’ of experience operating in Software Engineering space with DevOps thinking

At least 2 years’ of experience in technologies building and managing Container management and orchestration platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s Degree

Experience building and launching customer facing, highly available (24x7) developer platforms

Experience building financial systems in banking industry

Experience co-creating a strategic vision / road maps and delivering early to market MVP solutions leveraging exploratory fail fast methodologies

10+ years in inspiring, coaching and growing highly performant software engineering teams

10+ years' experience in a hands-on full stack software development (Java / Spring / Go, NodeJS, Javascript)

8+ years’ experience in designing, developing scalable web applications and architectural standards

8+ years' experience in Agile practices

5+ years’ experience in Cloud engineering / infrastructure management, DevOps methodologies and container management technologies.

5+ years’ experience working with Amazon Web Services

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

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