Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible) - Global Payment Network

Capital One; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible) to guide multiple high-performing teams in building cloud-based banking solutions. The role emphasizes technical vision, architectural governance, and scalable platforms across enterprise-grade systems.

You will mentor engineers, shape long-term roadmaps, and partner with product and business leaders to align capabilities with market needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of people management experience
• At least 9 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience
• At least 9 years of enterprise architecture and design patterns experience
• At least 9 years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• At least 9 years of data architecture experience

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 engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development, and equitable opportunity across engineering teams
• 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 and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to design, develop, test, implement, and support full-stack solutions
• Oversee availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions
• Stay current with tech trends and mentor others in AI-enabled tooling and modern practices
• Foster innovation, inclusion and collaboration across teams
• Improve velocity across organization and deploy applications into AWS environments

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud computing

Software architecture

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible) - Global Payment Network

As a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer at Capital One, you will lead high-performing engineering teams working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, architects and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions. Our Senior Directors are technical people leaders who drive engineering strategy, guide complex architectural decisions, and translate business goals into impactful technology platforms.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will foster a culture of engineering excellence and inclusivity, balancing technical depth with empowered team leadership. You will lead the way in building next-generation talent for Capital One Tech—mentoring managers and engineers, driving workforce strategy and actively recruiting top-tier talent.

Senior Directors are expected to lead through technical vision, operational rigor and strategic alignment. You will serve as a key owner for your domain's technical health, delivery velocity and system resilience. While shaping long-term technology strategy and platform roadmaps, you will inspire a culture of continuous learning, innovation and high-impact delivery across your organization.

About the Team:

The Global Payment Network (GPN) Technology organization designs, builds, and operates the mission-critical systems and infrastructure that seamlessly power complex money movement across domestic and international rails. We build and operate a high-volume, low-latency, and highly resilient distributed ecosystem that is simultaneously secure, performant, accurate, and nimble.

As an engineer in the Global Payment Network, you will apply your technical acumen to shape and deliver solutions to complex problems at massive scale. You will engineer solutions across core network products, simplify global participant integration, and rapidly deliver new features. Leveraging automation and AI-native engineering, you will unlock real-time insights and advance our capabilities in domains ranging from high-throughput transaction processing to advanced fraud and risk mitigation.

What You’ll Do:

• 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 engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development, and equitable opportunity across engineering teams
• 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 and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences
• 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 the organization to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of people management experience
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• 12+ years of experience in web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
• 12+ years of experience in designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
• 12+ years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• 12+ years of experience in data architecture
• 12+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
• 10+ years of experience with database and database management systems
• 12+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
• 12+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
• 7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams3+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards
• Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges
• Demonstrated experience as an active technical practitioner using AI-driven tools, frameworks, or modern software development practices
• Experience working within the fintech industry, specifically in payment processing, merchant services, or digital payment architectures
• Demonstrated ability to build and ship enterprise software iteratively, enterprise-scale data migrations and platform transformations in FinTech or large-scale enterprise organizations
• Experience architecting, testing, and operating real-time, distributed data systems and high-volume pipelines
• Strong ownership mindset with a destination-backwards approach to navigating ambiguity
• Strategic thought partner and effective challenger across Product, Design, Risk, and Enterprise Tech leadership
• Demonstrated experience being an engineering culture builder and mentor dedicated to attracting, developing, and elevating top-tier talent

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): $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer

McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer

Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer

Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Director, Full-stack Engineer

Riverwoods, IL: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. 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 (https://www.capitalonecareers.com/benefits) . 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.

No agencies please. 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 does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

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).