Director, Full-Stack Engineering — Cloud-Scale Leader (AWS)

Capital One; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA (Richmond area) seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, shaping cloud-based platform strategy and delivering scalable solutions across AWS and enterprise architectures.

You will mentor leaders, align roadmaps with business goals, drive engineering excellence, and foster inclusive, high-performance culture while recruiting top talent and guiding cross-domain reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or a related quantitative field or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of people management experience.
• Experience in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.

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.
• Lead the deployment of applications into AWS environments and guide microservice architectures.

Skills

People management

Cloud computing

Architecture design

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA (Richmond area) seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, shaping cloud-based platform strategy and delivering scalable solutions across AWS and enterprise architectures.

You will mentor leaders, align roadmaps with business goals, drive engineering excellence, and foster inclusive, high-performance culture while recruiting top talent and guiding cross-domain reviews.