Senior Manager, Full-stack Engineer
About The Position
Capital One is seeking a full-stack software engineering leader to build high-performing teams, drive technical strategy, and lead technology transformations. The role is in the Servicing Tech division, which develops solutions supporting customers throughout the lifecycle of their auto loans, including payment and ledger systems, account management, financial hardship support, and platforms intended to help prevent repossession. The work focuses on customer impact and human-centric digital experiences. The Senior Manager leads developers and multiple Agile engineering teams or programs, delivering large-scale cross-functional initiatives and cloud-based solutions. The role partners with product, architecture, and platform leaders to define technology roadmaps and investment priorities, aligns engineering execution with enterprise goals, and develops engineering leads and succession plans. The position also drives the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance distributed and cloud-native systems. The leader is expected to mentor engineers, stay current with technology, and may contribute to or evaluate code.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience; internship experience does not apply.
- At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- At least 3 years of people management experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 1 year of experience leading architectural design reviews and influencing enterprise-wide technical standards and methodologies.
- At least 4 years of experience with databases and database management systems.
- At least 4 years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- At least 4 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated testing frameworks.
- At least 4 years of experience using Git-based version-control systems such as Git, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
- At least 4 years of experience troubleshooting technical issues in cloud environments.
- At least 5 years of experience contributing to open-source frameworks.
- At least 5 years of experience with front-end JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks.
- At least 5 years of experience creating synchronous and asynchronous APIs.
- At least 9 years of coding experience with more than two of Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala.
- Experience using modern AI-based coding tools and IDE copilots.
- Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs spanning multiple domains.
- Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs aligned with business outcomes.
- Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy to scale engineering capabilities.
- Experience presenting technology roadmaps and investment cases to executive leadership.
- Collaborative and empathetic approach, with active listening, emotional intelligence, trust-building, and customer-impact-oriented decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers building distributed microservices and full-stack systems that address company regulatory needs.
- Promote learning and experimentation with new technologies, participate in technology communities, mentor engineers, and occasionally code or evaluate code.
- Collaborate with digital product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions and customer experiences.
- Lead teams using programming languages, databases, container orchestration, and AWS tools and services.
- Lead multiple Agile engineering teams or programs, setting strategic direction and ensuring delivery of large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
- Partner with product, architecture, and platform leaders to define multi-year technology roadmaps and investment priorities.
- Develop and manage Lead Engineers and other leads, building succession plans and scaling leadership capabilities.
- Align engineering execution with enterprise goals and influence portfolio-level decisions and trade-offs.
- Drive end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale distributed or cloud-native systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.
- Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
