Senior Director, Software Engineering

Capital One

Capital One

Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Dec 24, 2025
161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,Senior Director, Software Engineering

About Capital One Canada

For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible, simple, intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit, because we believe in people — in our customers, in our associates, and in talent like you!

About the Team

Since 2014, Capital One Canada’s software studio has grown from a team of 10 to a team of over 250. We’re passionate about what we do, and we’re always on the lookout for people who want to make a difference in the world of credit through technology. We’re obsessed with doing the right thing, and we achieve that by finding innovative ways to better serve our customers.

We’re all-in on the cloud and we’re leaders in the adoption of open source, RESTful APIs, microservices, and containers. We build our own products and release them with a speed and agility that allows us to get new customer experiences to market quickly. And, as a founder-led company, we’re inspired to make, break, do, and do good. So, let’s do something great together.

Want to learn more? Check out life at Capital One in the Software Studio!

Your Responsibilities:

  • Lead with humility and grow talented engineers who are building the next level of engineering capabilities in Developer Experience, Developer Tooling, and Site Reliability

  • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in your teams

  • Raise accountability and strive to build a culture that continuously raises the bar for excellence

  • Build a strong sense of psychological safety on your teams and adjacent teams

  • Engage with stakeholders to define strategic imperatives and execute roadmaps that create original digital customer products and services

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

  • Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

  • Encourage innovation, foster diversity and inclusion, challenge the status quo, and leverage cutting-edge technologies, and offer, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization

  • Leverage and and contribute to the open source community

  • Partner with leaders across the company to architect, design and develop enterprise platforms, including large scale data and machine learning applications

Basic Qualifications:

  • At Least 10 years of experience in software engineering

  • At Least 8 years of experience in people management

  • At Least 3 years of experience leading multiple teams within an agile environment

  • At Least 2 years of experience managing other directors including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning

  • Demonstrated experience and success pursuing best practices for teams of software engineers

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications:
(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job)

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

  • 15+ years’ of experience in software development

  • 8+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

  • Experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools

  • Experience with Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)

  • Experience leading horizontal DevOps/Developer tooling teams

Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at ARCanada@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).