353 Software Director jobs in the United Kingdom

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

**Summary:**
We are looking for seasoned engineering leaders to join us in making the world more open and connected. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established companies. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines. You'll influence technical decision making, drive prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment.
**Required Skills:**
Director, Software Engineering Responsibilities:
1. You will be responsible for leading teams chartered with infrastructure innovations that enable software engineers, research scientists, data scientists, ML engineers to deploy solutions at planet scale and meet Meta's growing product and business needs
2. Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers
3. Provide both technical and organizational leadership
4. Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering efforts
5. Establish effective strategies and execute against them
6. Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion and innovation
7. Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
8. Significant technical industry experience
9. Extensive management experience
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
10. Graduate degree preferred
**Industry:** Internet

Overview

We are looking for seasoned engineering leaders to join us in making the world more open and connected. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established companies. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines. You’ll influence technical decision making, drive prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment.nResponsibilities

You will be responsible for leading teams chartered with infrastructure innovations that enable software engineers, research scientists, data scientists, ML engineers to deploy solutions at planet scale and meet Meta’s growing product and business needsnBuild, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managersnProvide both technical and organizational leadershipnForm cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering effortsnEstablish effective strategies and execute against themnUphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion and innovationnDemonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance managementnMinimum Qualifications

Significant technical industry experiencenExtensive management experiencenPreferred Qualifications

Graduate degree preferrednIndustry: Internet

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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.nThe Position A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.nAdvances in AI, data, and computational sciences are transforming drug discovery and development. Roche’s Research and Early Development organisations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Seamless data sharing and access to models across gRED and pRED are essential to maximising these opportunities. The new Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CoE) is a strategic, unified group whose goal is to harness this transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist our scientists in both pRED and gRED to deliver more innovative and transformative medicines for patients worldwide.nWithin the CoE, the

Data and Digital Catalysts (DDC)

organisation is modernising our computational and data ecosystems, building interconnected solutions that accelerate discovery and decision-making. The Solutions team within DDC creates engineering solutions on top of this data ecosystem—designing applications and pipelines that support computational scientists, bench scientists, and ML/AI engineers across the globe.nAs

Director, Software Engineering , you will provide visionary leadership to shape and deliver engineering solutions across our data stack. Your work will directly empower scientists and researchers, enabling breakthroughs that bring innovative medicines to patients faster.nThe Opportunity

Lead engineering strategy

by driving consolidation, reducing technical debt, and developing common solutions across domains.

Inspire and grow talent

through hiring, mentoring, and creating opportunities that unleash potential and strengthen team capability.

Deliver technical excellence

by ensuring solutions are scalable, modular, FAIR-compliant, and aligned with industry best practices.

Influence roadmaps and standards

in collaboration with Product Leaders, Distinguished Engineers, Architects, and domain experts.

Advance interoperability

by designing global applications that integrate seamlessly across data workflows, supporting use cases from lab science to AI/ML.

Foster collaboration

to break down silos, share best practices, and accelerate impact across the enterprise.

Champion innovation

by adopting an Open Source, Cloud-first, API-first, AI-first approach.

Who You Are

Experienced in leading software and data engineering teams, with proven success delivering enterprise-scale solutions.

Skilled in modern software engineering approaches (cloud-native design, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems) and working experience with Databases and Data Analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ELT), APIs (REST, GraphQL).

Strong technical background in building robust data pipelines, applications, and full-stack solutions (front-end, back-end, databases - HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python and Java).

Strategic thinker who balances long-term vision with urgent delivery.

Passionate about technical excellence, product usability, and reducing complexity.

Recognised as a collaborative leader, mentor, and coach who builds trust and fosters shared ownership.

#ComputationCoEnWho we are A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.nThe statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

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Overview

Director, Software EngineeringnAs a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you will work on customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, highly-available RESTful microservices, back-end Java based systems, and machine learning models using the latest techniques in Big Data. You should have solid experience in databases, API development, and cloud computing, proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, and strong collaboration skills to partner effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and product managers.nResponsibilities

Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers dedicated to solving challenging customer problemsnProvide guidance and perform software development work to ensure solutions are properly engineered and maintained to support customer needsnMentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your teamnSpearhead workstream execution with robust process and project delivery managementnCollaborate with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenariosnContinuously improve software engineering practicesnWork within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologiesnLead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutionsnStay 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 communitynEncourage innovation and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, teamwork, self-organizationnImprove velocity of your teams and related teamsnLead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environmentsnBreak existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservicesnQualifications

Basic Qualifications:nBachelor’s DegreenAt least 7 years of software development experiencenAt least 5 years of people management experiencenPreferred Qualifications:nMaster’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineeringn10+ years of experience in software developmentn7+ years of experience in directly managing engineering teamsn4+ years of experience in AI, Data Science, or Machine Learning with hands-on experience in AI/ML workflows including ingesting and transforming datan2+ years of experience in developing Generative AI models and frameworks (OpenAI family, open source LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation)n5+ years of experience in Agile practicesnCompensation and Benefits

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. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based on hours worked.nMcLean, VA: $263,900 - $01,200 for Director, Software EngineeringnRichmond, VA: 239,900 - 273,800 for Director, Software EngineeringnCandidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered will be reflected in the offer letter.nThis role is eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.nCapital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits. 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.nAdditional Information

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.nNo agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including veterans) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable laws.nIf you require an accommodation to apply, please contact Capital One Recruiting at or via email at For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please email One does not provide, endorse, or guarantee third-party products or services available through this site. Capital One Financial is comprised of multiple entities; positions posted in Canada are for Capital One Canada, in the United Kingdom for Capital One Europe, and in the Philippines for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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Overview

Director, Software EngineeringnAs a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on implementing some of the technology advanced products using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems and Machine learning models using the latest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in both emerging and traditional technologies.nAbout Risk Tech

In Risk Tech, we provide the foundation for Capital One to thrive in an uncertain world. Our engaged, empowered, and intelligent people produce outstanding products, working toward the common goal of transforming risk management with technology. We build data-driven tools that use machine learning to prevent risks & automatically detect issues before they impact our business, our customers, or our communities.nYour role

In this role at Risk Tech, you will work with our internal Audit team to provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to help build best-in-class products for Capital One. You will be a thought leader in this space to ensure we are building a world class product that is scalable, resilient, multi-tenant and can support a variety of use cases.nYou will be responsible to lead the teams with setting up the right vision, best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience. You will also closely partner with product partners and other stakeholders to define the strategy that will position Audit products to be the best in class product for enterprise users. Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to your direct reports helping them grow in their career at Capital One.nIf you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.nOur Directors Are

Technologists: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - will have a DevOps mindset

Effective Communicators: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff

Partnership Attitude: Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions

Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization

Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change

Achievers: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals

You Will

Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers

Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open-source products across all platforms

Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms

Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

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

Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for the applications

Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 7 years’ experience in software development

At least 5 years’ experience in people management

Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

10+ years’ of experience in software development

5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.nThe 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.nCambridge, MA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Software EngineeringnCandidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.nThis 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.nCapital 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.nThis role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.nNo agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including /vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections ; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.nIf 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 or via email at All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.nFor technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.nCapital 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).

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Overview

Director, Software EngineeringnWe are on a journey to build a zero to one product in our Growing portfolio (Talent/Performance & Learning and Development). We are reimagining talent life-cycle and building a Platform by leveraging modern technologies in the cloud, artificial intelligence and next-gen data to develop breakthrough innovations and deliver transformative and delightful Associate experiences across HR Growing domain. As a Director, you will play a key strategic role in driving the technical vision and execution for our highly critical and complex portfolio in HR space and solve human capital problems for our company through our talent management practices and products.nAs a Capital One 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 systems. 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, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.nNeeds to have: GoLang, Java, NodeJs, AWS (Serverless - Fargate, Lambdas, DynamoDB)nNice to have: Python, Build tools, Financial industry experience.nYou will

Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineersnMentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.nWork with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenariosnContinuously improve software engineering practicesnWork within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack development tools and technologiesnLead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutionsnBring 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 communitynEncourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organizationnWork across to improve the velocity of your and other teamsnLead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environmentsnBreak existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservicesnBasic Qualifications

Bachelor’s DegreenAt least 7 years’ experience in software developmentnAt least 5 years’ experience in people managementnQualifications

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineeringn10+ years’ of experience in software developmentn5+ years’ of experience in Agile practicesnCapital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.nThe 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.nMcLean, VA: $263,900 - $01,200 for Director, Software EngineeringnRichmond, VA: 239,900 - 273,800 for Director, Software EngineeringnCandidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.nThis 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.nCapital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.nThis role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.nNo agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including /vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. 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, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections ; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.nIf 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 or via email at All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.nFor technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.nCapital 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).

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OverviewnAt American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.

Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.

Key Initiatives

Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails

Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases

Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability

High Availability, Re resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud

Roles and Responsibilities

You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.

Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories

Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.

You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.

Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.

Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader

Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.

Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.

Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations

Qualifications

You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10+ years of relevant work experience.

Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.

Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.

Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.

Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.

Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.

Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools

Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.

Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.

Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.

Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders

Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

Competitive base salaries

Bonus incentives

Support for financial-well-being and retirement

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)

Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)

Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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