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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Director, Software Engineering (Developer Experience) - **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Android Software Development, Apple IOS, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Relational Databases, Perl (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, Mobile Application Software, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, Node.Js, NoSQL, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ruby, Software Engineering, Extensible Markup Language (XML), ReactJS, Backend, AngularJS, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Restful APIs, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A2E83C3CC9B74206838E30EE6DBC8F3D/job/ ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree * At least 9 years of experience in software engineering * At least 7 years of experience in people management, * Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering * 13+ years of experience in software engineering * 8+ years of experience in Agile practices * Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion ## Description As a Capital One Senior Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few. Our team builds the enterprise's premier engineering intelligence platform, empowering our entire technology organization to be fundamentally data-driven. Acting as an active insights engine for everyone from front-line developers to executive leadership, this platform delivers standardized, actionable metrics across the SDLC. By surfacing critical insights into engineering efficiency, development workflows, and modern tooling adoption, we equip teams with the exact analytics needed to pinpoint structural bottlenecks, eliminate developer friction, and accelerate time-to-market. In this position, you will lead "Developer Experience for AI" here at Capital One. You will be evolving how Capital One developers engage with AI by delivering new AI tools, maturing the AI ecosystem, developing Capital One's AI Context Strategy, and more. You will: * Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers * Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team. * Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios * Continuously improve software engineering practices * Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologies * Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions * Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community * Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity * Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams * Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments * Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers: David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/875-coffee-with-developers-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Tips and Tricks for Working with JSON](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1229-tips-and-tricks-for-working-with-json) - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Can This Elephant Dance? 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