Software Engineering Manager

Capital One Financial ,
London, Greater London
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White Collar Factory (95009), United Kingdom, London, London At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding. Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good. Software Engineering Manager Do you want to work for a tech company that writes its own code, develops its own software, and builds its own products? We experiment and innovate leveraging the latest technologies, engineer breakthrough customer experiences, and bring simplicity and humanity to banking. We make a difference for 65 million customers. We're changing banking for good. At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. As a Software Engineering Manager, your team will work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful services, to back-end Java based systems using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll be a strong people leader or a people leader who also brings solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies. In order to be successful you will: * Work with product owners 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 of development tools and technologies * Lead the creation, 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 * Performance manager a team of dedicated and creative engineers Basic Qualifications: * Experience working with or managing a team of developers * Strong people management or leadership * Experience delivering projects from start to finish * Experience making business decisions or leading design and architectural conversations * A background in software engineering would be advantageous What's in it for you: * Bring us all this - and you'll be rewarded with a role contributing to the product roadmap for an organisation committed to transformation. * We are continuing our journey into the public cloud and have problems of scale, security, availability and performance for you to help solve. * We love continuous learning and that's why we give you 10% of your time to work on cutting edge innovative projects that shape the way we will work in the future * We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers) * Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance - with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave * Open-plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee cafe * Find out more through our UK careers site ( or by exploring the @IAmCapitalOne Twitter tag. Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. 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 prov

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