Senior Software Engineering Manager - Capital One Travel - Backend

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161 Bay Street (+3021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Capital One Travel - Backend
About Capital One Canada.

For over 20 years, we’ve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible, simple, intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit, because we believe in people — in our customers, in our associates, and in talent like you!

Capital One Travel.

Join the fast-growing Capital One Travel team, as we seek to transform the way customers book travel. Capital One Travel is a fast-moving, highly innovative, digital-first business within Capital One’s Premium Products and Experiences organization. We aim to grow an industry leading travel booking platform that customers love and delivers unique, differentiated benefits to our millions of customers while also powering the headline marketable benefits of our credit card products.

Working at Capital One.

Enjoy a hybrid work environment, with 3 days in the office. Build a comfortable workspace with our one-time, Work From Home allowance and enjoy our head office located conveniently across the street from Union Station.

Live well—physically, financially and emotionally. Receive support for you and those who are most important to you, with full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. With up to $3000 in mental health coverage and up to $5000 in tuition subsidies per year—and much more—you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.

At Capital One we’re committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. We strive to build a culture where diverse perspectives are valued, innovative ideas are encouraged and inclusive behaviors are embedded in everything we do to positively impact associates. Strive to build a culture where diverse perspectives are valued, innovative ideas are encouraged and to help challenge the status quo and create the best outcomes for everyone.

We’re focused on helping associates live well—physically, financially and emotionally. When you join us, we support you and those who are most important to you, offering full coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents. We’ve designed our benefits program to be flexible, comprehensive and consistent across our organization. From health and fitness center discounts, to training and professional development programs—and much more—you’ll discover that Capital One is committed to helping you live your best life.


Here are a few of the ways we’re helping people take control of their credit:

Helping customers view and monitor their credit scores with Credit Keeper

Enabling customers to view and edit their Personal Information directly in the Mobile App

Providing customers 100% certainty which credit cards they’ll be approved for before they apply, by using Quick Check™

We’re all-in on the cloud and we’re leaders in the adoption of open source, RESTful APIs, microservices, and containers. We build our own products and release them with a speed and agility that allows us to get new customer experiences to market quickly. And, as a founder-led company, we’re inspired to make, break, do, and do good. So, let’s do something great together.

Want to learn more? Check out life at Capital One in the Software Studio!

What You’ll Do:

Directly lead a team of backend engineers to build next generation native mobile Apps

Participate in talent and succession planning, encourage innovation, implement cutting-edge technologies, elevate inclusion, offer out of the box thinking, celebrate teamwork, self-organization and diversity

Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience and scalability of mobile applications within the Software Studio

Bring passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technology, participate in internal external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

Basic Requirements

At least 4 years of experience leading a team within an agile environment

At least 4 years of experience providing direct people leadership including talent development, performance management, team building and succession planning

At least 10 years of experience as a hands-on software engineer

Knowledge of software engineering best practices including security, automated testing, continuous delivery (CI/CD), high-availability and system resiliency

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications

(Don’t have them all? Don’t worry. We’ll help you develop the right skills for the job!)

Experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service

Experience with Mobile architecture for iOS and Android

Bachelor’s Degree and/or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering

Experience leading multiple teams

Demonstrated ability to influence senior business and product stakeholders (Director+) on strategy and roadmaps

At least 5 years of experience managing relationships with Business and/or Product stakeholders, and/or external partners

At least 4 years of experience leading software engineers creating customer facing and enterprise facing web applications and/or supporting application services

At least 10 years of experience contributing to application and/or data design, architecture and development

We may use your information for automated decision making. We may, for certain purposes, render a decision based exclusively on automated processing of your personal information as a part of the candidate screening process.

Capital One Canada is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants and will meet the needs of those requiring reasonable accommodations.
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-+102 or via email at ARCanada@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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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). Read more