Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering - Risk Technology

The Risk Technology team at Capital One is tasked with building cutting-edge software to manage the most critical risks across the bank. Our applications are used to prevent risks and automatically detect issues before they impact our business, our customers, or our communities. Whether it's detecting and preventing financial crimes, modeling the financial risk of our credit portfolio, or identifying fraud, our engineers design, build, and support the applications that are foundational to one of Capital One's key competitive advantages, Risk Management. There is a reason at Capital One we say Risk Management is the business.

As a Director of Software Engineering within Risk Technology, you'll be tasked with building new solutions that align to our mission of transforming risk management with technology. Our data pipelines are responsible for monitoring, managing, and transforming data across the entire bank, processing billions of records every day in real time. Our internal tools are used by thousands of internal risk managers and investigators to detect, monitor, and resolve risks. And our models leverage machine learning to surface the most critical risks across the bank.

You will:

• Lead, manage and empower multiple teams of Software, Data, and ML Engineers.
• Hire and grow world-class engineering talent, providing mentoring to guide the professional and technical development of your team. Build an organization that empowers your talent to perform at their highest level.
• Build systems that adhere to the highest engineering quality standards, applying your vision and expertise to set the bar on resiliency, scalability, efficiency, and performance.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of emerging technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.
• Partner with product managers and our business teams to design solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our risk management customers.
• Build systems that have an immediate impact on our business and on our customers.
• Ship early and often to production, bringing business value to our stakeholders quickly while failing fast and iterating when we miss the mark.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software development
• At least 5 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in Software Engineering or Data Engineering as an individual contributor.
• Experience in building data applications that leverage distributed technologies (Spark, Flink, Hive) to execute workflows at scale.
• 5+ years of experience developing front-end applications using modern frameworks (React, Angular).
• Experience in operating applications using AWS, leveraging services such as Lambda, Fargate, RDS, and Kinesis, employing multi-AZ and multi-region practices to solve for resiliency.
• Experience in developing personalized experiences, leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, multi-armed bandit) to optimize.

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

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed-upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Director, Software Engineering

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. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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.

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