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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Director, Software Engineering - Bank Tech

Capital One executive full-time

Salary

$269,100 - $307,200

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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.

About The Team: The Bank Retail Money Management team is focused on helping customers improve their financial health and make better decisions with their money.

The team builds experiences and capabilities that help customers understand, manage, save, and take action on their finances.

The team is also at the forefront of our engineering transformation embracing AI-native development, experimentation, and new ways of working to accelerate customer outcomes.

What You’ll Do:

  • 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:
  • Software engineering and solution architecture
  • Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
  • Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
  • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Data architecture
  • 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
  • 8+ 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: McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Full-stack Engineer New York, NY: $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

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • Web technologies
  • Distributed HPC and ML systems
  • Database and database management systems
  • Public cloud platforms
  • Networking protocols
  • Agentic AI coding tools

Ready to apply?

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