Director, Full-Stack Engineer

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Director, Full-Stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, shaping cloud-native banking platforms. You will partner with product, design, and executive leaders to translate business goals into scalable technology.

As a technical people leader, you will mentor engineers, drive engineering strategy, oversee architecture, and push AWS-based microservices, ensuring resilience and velocity across initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field; higher degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of people management experience and 7+ years in software engineering and related areas.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data/architecture design.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
• Mentor and guide professional and technical development of engineers.
• Collaborate with product managers to shape capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices across Agile teams.
• Oversee deployment of applications to AWS and build microservices architecture.
• Drive long-term technical strategy and platform roadmaps across enterprise systems.
• Partner with senior leaders to align roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Agile collaboration

Technical strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

JavaScript/TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Go

Java

Python

C#

Microservices

Job description

Director, Full-Stack Engineer

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.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. 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.

Directors are expected to lead through technical vision, operational rigor and strategic alignment. You will serve as a key owner for your domain's technical health, delivery velocity and system resilience. While shaping long-term technology strategy and platform roadmaps, you will inspire a culture of continuous learning, innovation and high-impact delivery across your organization.

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-organization 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 virtualization 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

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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