Sr Manager, Software Engineering (United Income)

Job Description

McLean 2 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

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.

Sr Manager, Software Engineering (United Income)

United Income is a recently acquired fin-tech startup looking to add a talented engineering manager to our team. United Income has joined Capital One as we seek to scale our solution to serve millions of households in the years to come.

• Do you care about delivering quality products to your users?
• Are you passionate about mentoring engineers and growing future leaders?
• Is providing maintainable, tested code to your fellow engineers (and future self) important to you?
• Do you have a deep understanding of Javascript or Python?
• When you encounter a problem that isn’t neatly packaged and fully defined, are you passionate about digging into it and refining a solution?

If you can answer yes to these questions, you’ll find working here exciting and engaging.

United Income is a money management solution for retirees that strives to be both holistic and cost-efficient. Our technology studies millions of different combinations of future life, market, and benefit outcomes with the goal of finding the optimal set of financial decisions for each of our members. Using this technology, we are able to offer personalized advice on everything from investment allocations to Social Security claiming to tax planning.

As an engineering manager, you’ll be responsible for managing and growing a team of engineers. At the heart of your responsibilities is empowering your team to do the best work they can, to build phenomenal things, and to become better engineers and people. Our work requires collaboration across methodology, design, product, and more, so you must enjoy working collaboratively with a diverse team--and sometimes competing interests.

We are committed to equal opportunity and diverse hiring. Even more important than hiring is supporting our diverse team, and we are dedicated to equitable pay and transparency.

As you know, this industry moves FAST and the latest tech can fade quickly. While we hope you have some familiarity with parts of our stack, we favor versatility, an eagerness to learn, and solid foundations over the latest buzzwords. We want to see your curiosity and passion for what’s out there, and also wisdom when making decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, manage, and retain a team of talented engineers
• Mentor less experienced people managers and lead by example
• Influence peer teams and leadership to ensure our technology culture is one where engineers proudly do their best work every day
• Work as part of a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to construct a product delivery strategy, reasonable roadmaps, and timelines
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, user experience, and methodology to plan enhancements or new applications
• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards and expected quality
• Estimate level of effort to develop code to meet acceptance criteria
• Navigate the organization as necessary to unblock the team and ensure timely delivery

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 2 years of people management responsibilities with direct reports
• At least 8 years of application development experience
• At least 3 years of experience with writing software leveraging automated testing
• At least 2 years of experience working with Javascript or Python
• At least 1 year of experience working with public or private cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ yrs of experience in application development
• Experience in React
• Experience with relational databases
• Experience with CICD Pipelines
• Open source contributions

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. 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.

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