Director, Full-Stack Engineering — Cloud & Leadership

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, partner with product and design leaders, and drive the technical strategy for cloud-based platforms. You will mentor managers and engineers, refine architectural standards, and ensure scalable, resilient systems across environments.

This role focuses on guiding cross-functional teams, delivering customer-centric software, and advancing engineering excellence in a fast-paced, inclusive culture at

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• 7+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud-related design.
• Experience with cloud platforms and data architecture is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical and professional development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Improve software engineering practices and cross-team delivery velocity.
• Oversee deployment of applications to AWS environments and microservice architectures.
• Shape long-term technical strategy and enterprise architecture standards.

Skills

People leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Cloud strategy

Architectural vision

Agile practices

Software engineering depth

Technical coaching

Delivering scalable systems

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Master’s preferred

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Go/Python

Microservices architecture

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, partner with product and design leaders, and drive the technical strategy for cloud-based platforms. You will mentor managers and engineers, refine architectural standards, and ensure scalable, resilient systems across environments.

This role focuses on guiding cross-functional teams, delivering customer-centric software, and advancing engineering excellence in a fast-paced, inclusive culture at