Senior Manager, Full-stack Engineer (PL)
About The Position
Capital One is seeking a Full-stack Software Engineering leader for its Risk Tech GRC team. The role leads engineering teams and technical strategy to build and deploy proprietary, AI-powered risk management solutions that address regulatory needs and deliver customer value. Risk Tech develops data-driven tools, including machine-learning-enabled products, to prevent risks and detect issues before they affect customers, the business, or communities. The position leads a portfolio of technology projects and multiple Agile engineering teams or programs, providing strategic direction and ensuring delivery of large-scale, cross-functional initiatives. The Senior Manager partners with product, architecture, and platform leaders to establish multi-year technology roadmaps and investment priorities; aligns execution with enterprise goals; and influences portfolio decisions and trade-offs. The role also manages Lead Engineers and other leads, develops succession plans, and expands leadership capability across teams. The work includes guiding the design and implementation of reliable, high-performance distributed and cloud-native systems, collaborating with product managers, mentoring engineering talent, and keeping current with technology trends. The leader may also code or evaluate code. Teams use a range of programming languages, open-source relational and NoSQL databases, container orchestration technologies, and AWS tools and services.
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 (AWS, GCP, or Azure), 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 within 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 leveraging 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 organizational design and talent strategy to scale engineering capabilities.
- Experience presenting technology roadmaps and investment cases to executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers experienced in distributed microservices and full-stack systems to create solutions that meet company regulatory needs.
- Keep current with technology trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, mentor engineering peers, and occasionally code or evaluate code.
- Collaborate with digital product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions.
- Lead teams using programming languages including Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript; open-source RDBMS and NoSQL databases; Docker and Kubernetes; and AWS tools and services.
- Lead multiple Agile engineering teams or programs, provide strategic direction, and ensure 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 leads, build succession plans, and scale leadership capability across teams.
- 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
- Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- A comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
