Director, Full- Stack Engineer, Shopping Tech (Remote- Eligible)

Capital One; United States; Remote; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One Shopping seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams in a remote-first environment. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and champion scalable, cloud-based architectures across microservices and data-driven platforms.

You will shape high-impact features, stay current with tech trends, and guide the engineering community while delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable software across AWS deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 5 years of people management experience.
• At least 7 years in software engineering and enterprise architecture, cloud, and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
• Mentor the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Work with product managers to understand desired capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Design, develop, test, implement, and support cross-stack solutions across a full-stack toolset.
• Lead availability, resilience and scalability of solutions.
• Adopt and mentor cutting-edge technologies and communities; foster diversity and teamwork.
• Drive cross-team velocity and deploy applications into AWS environments.
• Break monoliths into microservices and build new microservices.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Mentoring

Agile

Cloud AWS

Full-stack development

Microservices

Big Data

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Node.js

React

Go

Python

REST

JSON

NoSQL

SQL

AWS

Job description

Director, Full- Stack Engineer, Shopping Tech (Remote- Eligible) Interested in joining a dynamic remote first engineering team in a fast-paced environment full of greenfield problem-solving? Then Capital One Shopping might be the place for you.

Join us in supporting a growth-stage line of business with a startup mindset as we build technology to save our customers money.

As a Capital One Director, Full-stack Engineer, you'll work on customer-facing web and services to help launch high visibility features and products.

You will lead teams using cutting-edge frameworks, technologies and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data.

You’ll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, React, Python, REST, JSON, NoSQL databases, relational databases and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

You will:

• 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
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

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 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.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Remote (Regardless of Location): $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Full-stack Engineer

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Full-stack Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing criminal background inquiries.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.

We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.