Remote Senior Director, Full-Stack Engineering

Capital One; Riverwoods (IL); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible) to lead high-performing teams within the Global Payment Network. You will shape technology strategy, drive architecture, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, design and executive stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure solutions in a cloud-first environment.

You will own delivery velocity, platform health, and team development across enterprise-grade systems, with a focus on modern fintech payment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or CS; 7+ years people leadership; 9+ years software engineering and solution architecture; 9+ years cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP); 9+ years data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
• Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
• Partner with senior leadership to align roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities.
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning and equitable opportunity across engineering teams.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand application capabilities and testing scenarios.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Cloud computing

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

Go/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Python

AI tooling experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible) to lead high-performing teams within the Global Payment Network. You will shape technology strategy, drive architecture, and mentor engineers while partnering with product, design and executive stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure solutions in a cloud-first environment.

You will own delivery velocity, platform health, and team development across enterprise-grade systems, with a focus on modern fintech payment