Senior Front-End Architect for AI-Powered Travel UX

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Front-end Engineer 4 (Manager, IC) to own end-to-end front-end architecture for the Cars and Ground Transportation team. You’ll collaborate with product managers and engineers to build scalable micro-frontends, BFFs, and reusable components, applying AI-assisted development practices.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive performance, accessibility, and testing, and shape feature design across customer journeys from pay-now to price benchmarking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
• At least 3 years of experience developing applications using TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)

Responsibilities

• Partner with Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
• Provide technical leadership for front-end architecture and design patterns, acting as a multiplier for your team's impact
• Mentor other engineers, fostering their growth through thoughtful feedback, code reviews, and sharing of best practices for AI-assisted development, while helping to identify and clear technical obstacles
• Grow and provide subject matter expertise in key platform areas (e.g., performance, accessibility, architecture)
• Contribute to front-end architecture decisions, API design reviews, and reusable component development
• Lead the design and development of client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and micro frontend (MFE) or federated application architectures to deliver scalable and flexible product experiences
• Lead the implementation and refinement of well-managed engineering practices, defining best practices for feature flags and canary rollouts to improve product delivery and quality
• Champion the adoption of agentic AI tools, mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices to increase team velocity
• Apply mastery of the modern web ecosystem (including PWAs, Wasm, mobile web, and Service Workers) to make complex, high-leverage, hands‑on technical contributions
• Drive a culture of quality, performance, accessibility, and customer empathy, establishing high standards for coding, testing, and user experience

Skills

Software engineering

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React/Angular/Vue/Svelte

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Playwright

GraphQL

gRPC/Protobuf

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Front-end Engineer 4 (Manager, IC) to own end-to-end front-end architecture for the Cars and Ground Transportation team. You’ll collaborate with product managers and engineers to build scalable micro-frontends, BFFs, and reusable components, applying AI-assisted development practices.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive performance, accessibility, and testing, and shape feature design across customer journeys from pay-now to price benchmarking.