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Director, Software Engineering - Payment Services

Capital One
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/13/2026
Director, Software Engineering - Payment Services

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you will serve as the Payments Technology point of contact and partner with technology and business leaders to provide multi-year technical vision and strategy aligned to achieving business goals. This role will serve as the key technical domain leader, will be able to anticipate business needs and proactively provide technical solutions as those needs arise. This role serves as a technology leader within the PULSE Payments Technology organization and across the entire Business Technology organization. This role will lead multiple technical teams: Debit Network Settlement, Pricing & Reporting (Settlement & Disputes). This role creates a culture of effective risk management, accountability, and demonstration of risk awareness across the organization and acts as a role model of this culture within their organization, across Global Payment Network -PULSE


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


Basic Qualifications
:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 7 years’ experience in software development

  • At least 5 years’ experience in people management


Preferred 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

  • Payment Services or financial services experience


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.

Riverwoods, IL: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Software Engineering

Houston, TX: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Software Engineering

McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Software Engineering


Candidates 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.

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 (EOE, including disability/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 4901-4920; 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.

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 RecruitingAccommodation@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

Capital 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.

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).

Salary : $239,900 - $273,800

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