Description
We are seeking a Front-end Engineer 4 to join our team at Capital One Travel, a rapidly growing product area within Emerging Verticals. As a Front-end Engineer 4, you will be designing and shipping high-impact systems from scratch, defining the technical foundation for a category that is expected to scale into a multi-billion-dollar market operation.
Responsibilities:
- Build new, customer-facing products and platform services from the ground up across the front end , from data and APIs through to the experiences customers touch.
- Work AI-natively: use modern AI tooling to prototype, generate, test, and ship features across many different areas and surfaces at a pace traditional teams can’t match.
- Partner directly with product, design, business, and external supply/partner contacts , translating real-world business needs into technical solutions and owning them end-to-end.
- Lead a portfolio of fast-moving projects and help set the engineering bar for a new team, mentoring others and raising the standard for AI-accelerated delivery.
- Make pragmatic architecture decisions for systems that need to scale quickly and reliably as the vertical grows.
- Utilize programming languages like JavaScript (Angular, React, Node), HTML/CSS, TypeScript and Java, open source frameworks, RESTful web services, and work on cross-browser and cross-device development
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 3 years of experience developing applications using TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience with TypeScript and JavaScript
- 4+ years of experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Svelte), HTML and CSS
- Demonstrated experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Playwright) and web performance tuning
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable front-end architectures and reusable component libraries
- Experience implementing and maintaining comprehensive automated testing
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) to orchestrate data using technologies like GraphQL and efficient networking protocols (e.g., gRPC/Protobuf)
- Demonstrated experience with micro frontend (MFE) architectures or federated architectural patterns
- Demonstrated experience in metrics-driven canary release and feature flag strategies
- Expertise with agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted workflow patterns
Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.