Capital One is a financial services and fintech company offering credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products. Its work combines financial expertise with technology and digital tools to improve how customers manage money. The company’s careers focus includes building customer-oriented solutions within a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Front-End Engineer Manager at Capital One – New York City Onsite
Lead AI-native micro-frontends, Backend-for-Frontends, and booking architecture for Capital One’s travel experiences. Shape scalable products serving more than 100 million customers.
Description
- Collaborate with software engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-performing features for more than 100 million customers.
- Set technical direction for front-end architecture and design patterns.
- Develop engineers through feedback, code reviews, and AI-assisted development guidance.
- Resolve technical impediments that affect delivery.
- Provide expertise in performance, accessibility, and software architecture.
- Influence front-end architecture, review API designs, and build reusable components.
- Lead client Backend-for-Frontends and micro-frontend or federated application architecture development.
- Establish engineering practices for feature flags and canary releases.
- Promote agentic AI tools and AI-native software development practices.
- Use modern web technologies such as progressive web applications, WebAssembly, mobile web, and Service Workers.
- Set standards for quality, performance, accessibility, coding, testing, and user experience.
- Own feature architecture across customer-facing micro-frontends, backend systems, supplier data, shopping journeys, booking pipelines, and ground transportation products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related quantitative discipline, including statistics, economics, operations research, analytics, mathematics, or engineering.
- At least four years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
- At least three years of experience building applications with TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte.
- At least four years of experience using TypeScript and JavaScript.
- At least four years of experience with modern web frameworks, HTML, and CSS.
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright, along with web performance optimization.
- Experience designing scalable front-end architectures and reusable component libraries.
- Experience implementing and maintaining comprehensive automated test suites.
- Experience designing and developing client Backend-for-Frontends with technologies such as GraphQL and efficient networking protocols such as gRPC or Protobuf.
- Experience with micro-frontend architectures or federated application patterns.
- Experience with metrics-driven canary releases and feature-flag strategies.
- Expertise using agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted workflow patterns.
- Capital One does not sponsor new employment authorization applicants or provide immigration-related support.
Benefits
- Performance-based incentive compensation may include cash bonuses or long-term incentives.
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits covering health, financial needs, and overall well-being.