Director of Full-Stack Engineering & Platform Leadership

Capital One; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams in a cloud-first environment. You will mentor engineers, align with product and design leaders, and drive architectural decisions to deliver scalable, customer-centric banking solutions.

You will shape long-term tech strategy, foster inclusive leadership, and recruit top talent while ensuring delivery velocity and system resilience across AWS-based platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• At least 5 years of people management experience.
• Experience in software engineering, 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 application capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of full-stack solutions in AWS environments.
• Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

SPA frameworks

Distributed HPC/ML systems

Programming languages (Go, Java, JS/TS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

JavaScript/TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Kubernetes

Databases

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams in a cloud-first environment. You will mentor engineers, align with product and design leaders, and drive architectural decisions to deliver scalable, customer-centric banking solutions.

You will shape long-term tech strategy, foster inclusive leadership, and recruit top talent while ensuring delivery velocity and system resilience across AWS-based platforms.