Director, Full-Stack Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VASan Francisco, CA
Salary: $269,100–$307,200 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 48 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 2309 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1162 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Full-Stack Engineer

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Director, Full-Stack Engineer leads high-performing engineering teams to define the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves managing multiple product-focused software engineering teams, mentoring staff, and driving engineering strategy to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions. Key responsibilities include overseeing the technical implementation of breaking monolithic applications into microservice architectures, shaping long-term platform roadmaps, and ensuring system resilience and delivery velocity. The position requires expertise in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise design patterns, and data architecture. Candidates must utilize technologies including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Rust, and C#. The work focuses on building next-generation talent, improving software engineering practices, and managing the full lifecycle of system development within complex cloud environments to solve critical banking technology problems.

Skills

AWS Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform Go Java JavaScript TypeScript Python Rust C# Scala Microservices Agile Data Architecture Distributed Systems HPC Networking Protocols SPA Frameworks

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.
Design, develop, test, implement, and support full-stack technical solutions across Agile teams.
Oversee the technical implementation of breaking monolithic applications into microservice architectures.
Shape long-term technical strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps for enterprise systems.
Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
Drive talent strategy, including succession planning, skill development, and active recruiting of top-tier talent.
Ensure the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of all software solutions.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
At least 5 years of people management experience.
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.
10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience coding in Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala (preferred).
8+ years of experience with database and database management systems (preferred).
10+ years of experience in the full lifecycle of system development, networking protocols, and mentoring senior engineers (preferred).

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