Sr. Director, Software Engineering - Finance Tech
Capital One · Saint Paul, MN
$286,200–$326,700from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Saint Paul, MN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering leadership role at Capital One overseeing multiple teams building finance-domain software — including transaction matching engines, event-driven streaming systems, and ERP integrations. The position carries full people-management responsibility (hiring, mentoring, growing engineers) alongside hands-on architectural direction for microservices, full-stack applications, and AWS cloud deployments. Best suited to an experienced engineering executive with a strong background in both technical delivery and large-team management.
Principal level · 9+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role requires at least 7 years of people management experience (a hard gate), making this clearly a people-management position; 11-3021 is the primary SOC, with 15-1252 as a runner-up given the strong hands-on technical framing.
Seniority is assessed as Principal: the role manages multiple teams, sets cross-team technical direction, and sits at a Director level — well above a typical Senior individual contributor or single-team manager.
Compensation figures shown are for the Remote/location-agnostic band ($286,200–$326,700); higher bands exist for New York and San Francisco ($343,400–$392,000). The role is also eligible for cash bonuses and long-term incentives.
The technology list (Node.js, Go, AngularJS, React, Python, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, etc.) appears in the introductory narrative as illustrative stack context rather than in a formal requirements section, so those skills are marked preferred. Java, REST, and AWS appear most prominently in the role's described work and are treated as hard gates.
Workday and PeopleSoft appear only under Preferred Qualifications as ERP integration examples and are marked preferred accordingly.
A Bachelor's degree is a hard gate per Basic Qualifications; a Master's in CS or Software Engineering is listed as preferred.
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