Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Developer Experience)

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VARichmond, VANew York, NYPlano, TX
Salary: $314,800–$359,300 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
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 886 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 880 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Developer Experience)

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As a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer (Developer Experience), you will lead multiple product-focused software engineering teams to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will be responsible for shaping long-term technical strategy, architecture standards, and roadmap alignment while managing talent development and mentoring engineers. Your daily work involves partnering with product managers and architects to build scalable, customer-centric solutions and improving software engineering practices across Agile teams. The role requires expertise in full-stack development tools, AWS environments, and data architecture. You will utilize technologies including Go, Java, Python, Rust, C#, Scala, and JavaScript/TypeScript with SPA frameworks. Additionally, you will leverage agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges while ensuring the craftsmanship, availability, and resilience of enterprise platforms within a complex cloud computing infrastructure.

Skills

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

What you'll do

Lead and manage multiple teams of product-focused software engineers.
Define long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
Align product roadmaps with scalable technology capabilities in partnership with senior leaders.
Drive talent strategy, including succession planning, skill development, and recruitment.
Mentor engineers to foster professional growth and technical excellence.
Improve software engineering practices and delivery velocity across the organization.
Ensure the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of full-stack solutions.
Lead the deployment of applications into AWS environments.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
At least 7 years of people management experience.
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture (preferred).
12+ years of experience in web technologies, distributed HPC/ML systems, and full lifecycle system development (preferred).
12+ years of professional coding experience in languages like Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Rust (preferred).
Experience with networking protocols, agentic AI tools, and mentoring senior engineers (preferred).

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