[Hiring] Director, Full Stack Engineer @Capital One

Role Description

Interested in joining a dynamic remote first engineering team in a fast-paced environment full of greenfield problem-solving? Then Capital One Shopping might be the place for you. Join us in supporting a growth-stage line of business with a startup mindset as we build technology to save our customers money.

As a Capital One Director, Full Stack Engineer, you'll work on customer-facing web and services to help launch high visibility features and products. You will lead teams using cutting-edge frameworks, technologies and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as:

• Node.js
• Java
• GO
• React
• Python
• REST
• JSON
• NoSQL databases
• Relational databases
• AWS/Cloud Infrastructure

What You’ll Do:

• 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
• 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 to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Oversee and guide the technical implementation of breaking existing monolithic applications into microservice architectures and build new microservices
• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 5 years of people management experience
• At least 7 years of experience in all of the following:
• Software engineering and solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Data architecture

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (Preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in all of the following:
• Software engineering and solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
• Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
• Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Data architecture
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
• 8+ years of experience with database and database management systems
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
• 10+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
• 2+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards
• Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
• Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)