Senior Manager, Software Engineering

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About Capital One Canada. For 30 years, we've been on a mission to change banking for good. We challenge the traditional bank stereotype by integrating machine learning, conversational AI and design thinking into our core operations. We're a bank a tech company would build, where your work directly shapes innovative solutions that impact millions of Canadians.

We're driven by fearless curiosity, bold innovation, and a collective of authentic people working together to redefine what's possible. Technology isn’t just part of our strategy, it is our strategy. Everything we do serves our vision and the creation of what's next.

About the Team: Join Capital One in Canada as we build the products that enable our millions of international Card customers. As part of a leading technology organization, you will work alongside our talented team of developers, product managers and people leaders to build cutting edge tools to accelerate developer productivity across tens of thousands of software engineers and business partners. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, developer experience is a business priority. The Engineering 360 (E360) team reshapes how thousands of software engineers build, test and ship code. You will focus on optimizing the developer experience from initial code commit to pull-request merge. You will architect enterprise-scale tools, pioneer cutting-edge AI integration, and eliminate workflow friction across the entire Card Technology ecosystem.

About the Role: As a Capital One Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you’ll bring your unique and extensive experience, perspective and strong communication skills to work hand in hand with tech and business leaders to shape the future technical direction of Card Tech and beyond.

You’ll help:

Drive AI-powered Developer Productivity: architect and scale modern AI developer capabilities, such as local MCP integrations, token optimization techniques, and OpenSpec standards.

Optimize the Inner Loop: standard developer environments and speed up feedback loops using Dev Containers, smart PR validation workflows, and automated code review optimizations.

Enhance Enterprise Infrastructure: lead key initiatives around GitHub ecosystem management, internal library optimization, and developer tooling efficiency at enterprise scale.

Lead and Innovate: partner closely with engineering leaders, product managers, and business stakeholder to turn developer friction into automated, high-impact solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

Lead with technical expertise and a proven track record of architecting developer platforms, internal tools or enterprise CI/CD systems.

Apply deep hands on experience to core tooling around containerization (Docker, Dev Containers), GitHub workflows, and modern software build systems.

Build and contribute to AI and platform innovation with strong technical proficiency in LLM tooling, local AI integration patterns (MCP), token optimization, and API/spec frameworks.

Foster strong engineering culture with a passion for developer advocacy, mentoring engineers, and setting technical standards across large engineering organizations.

Directly lead a team of 6+ engineers to build solutions

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

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 Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Experience with full stack software development

Exposure to financial/tech industry

Bachelor's, Master’s or Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or in related field

Experience leading multiple teams

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