Description
We are looking for a Director, Full-stack Engineer to join our dynamic remote-first engineering team in a fast-paced environment. As a Capital One Director, Full-stack Engineer, you will work on customer-facing web and services to help launch high-visibility features and products.
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:
- 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
- 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 $244,700 - $279,200 for Remote (Regardless of Location), and $269,100 - $307,200 for McLean, VA.
Benefits:
- Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being.