# Director, Full-Stack Engineer

**Company**: Capital One
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $269,100 - $307,200 for McLean, VA and $293,600 - $335,100 for San Francisco, CA
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Director, Full-Stack Engineer at Capital One, you will lead high-performing engineering teams working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will partner closely with product managers, designers, architects and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions.

Our Directors are technical people leaders who drive engineering strategy, guide complex architectural decisions and translate business goals into impactful technology platforms.

You will foster a culture of engineering excellence and inclusivity, balancing technical depth with empowered team leadership.

You will lead the way in building next-generation talent for Capital One Tech,mentoring managers and engineers, driving workforce strategy and actively recruiting top-tier talent.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers

- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team

- Work with product managers 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 development tools and technologies

- Lead the craftsmanship, 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-organisation and diversity

- Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams

- Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

- Oversee and guide the technical implementation of breaking existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices

- Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms

- Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities

- Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development, and equitable opportunity across engineering teams

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)

- At least 5 years of people management experience

- At least 7 years of experience in all of the following:

- Software engineering and solution architecture

- Enterprise architecture and design patterns

- Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

- Data architecture

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

- 10+ years of experience in all of the following:

- Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)

- Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems

- 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala

- 8+ years of experience with database and database management systems

- 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

- 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualisation technologies

- 10+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems

- 5+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams

- 2+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards

- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

**Salary Information:**

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Full-stack Engineer San Francisco, CA: $293,600 - $335,100 for Director, Full-stack Engineer

**Benefits:**

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Solution Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- Data Architecture
- Agile
- AWS

### Nice to have
- Web Technologies
- Distributed Systems
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Python
- Rust
- C#
- Scala
- Database Management
- Networking Protocols
- AI Coding Tools

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