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Capital One Director Software Engineering - Digital Commerce & Innovation 
United States, New York, New York 
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11 West 19th Street (22008), United States of America, New York, New York Director, Software Engineering - Digital Commerce & Innovation


In this role, you will:

  • Lead, manage, and grow teams of software engineers to build meaningful consumer products products powered by the latest technology with a focus on applied AI for web and mobile

  • Ability to wear the ‘Product hat’ with deep empathy for the customer

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to evolve how our customers interact with Capital One

  • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team

  • Partner with product and design leaders to define the strategy, roadmap and destination architecture, leveraging your deep customer empathy

  • Manage a portfolio of diverse technology platforms and projects to build scalable applications that meet or exceed our customer needs

  • Work within and across teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies

  • Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions

  • Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

  • Continuously improve software engineering practices

The Ideal Candidate:

  • You are deeply technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering, and your passion for consumer technology and AI enables you to identify and act on user experience optimization opportunities that others miss.

  • You adapt quickly and thrive on bringing clarity to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and digging deep to uncover the root of problems and can articulate your findings concisely with clarity.

  • You are familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI integration optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems

  • You have experience integrating solutions into a complex web service & mobile application ecosystem

  • You bring people along, engaging partners early and often from product, risk, cyber, and other critical teams.

  • You have a track record of building and leading high-performing teams in large and highly collaborative organizations.

  • You have a deep understanding of well managed processes and experience successfully implementing risk mitigation strategies

  • Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand highly technical publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.

  • You get fulfillment from empowering others to achieve their potential and you actively drive professional development through mentoring and coaching. You are hands-on when necessary and lead by example.

  • You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 7 years’ experience in software development

  • At least 5 years’ experience in people management

  • At least 3 years’ experience delivering features to users and building APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree

  • 10+ years’ experience in software development

  • 5+ years of experience in one or both of the following: Python, Typescript

  • 5+ years’ experience in Agile practices

  • 4+ years experience with AWS

  • Familiarity with AI tools (Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG), Vector databases, Prompt engineering, LangChain, Llama, EMP, Sandbox, Haystack)

  • Successful in-market implementation of UI/UX frontend development using React

  • Familiarity with Data and Feature Pipelines

  • Familiarity with Node

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Director, Software Engineering Illinois (Hybrid On-Site): $256,200 - $292,400 for Director, Software EngineeringThis 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.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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