Lead Software Engineer, Front End

Capital One Travel is building a brand-new product area inside Emerging Verticals — a true greenfield bet within the fastest-growing credit card travel portal in the US. You won’t be optimizing an existing product, instead, you’ll be designing and shipping high-impact systems from scratch and defining the technical foundation for a category we expect to scale into a multi-billion-dollar market operation.

This is a rare pitch for true technical ownership. You’ll join a small, entrepreneurial team that is pioneering AI-native development — using tools like Claude to spec, prototype, build, and QA across many surfaces at 10x speed — all backed by Capital One’s massive distribution engine. If you love going zero-to-one, moving fast, and seeing your work reach millions of customers, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Build new, customer-facing products and platform services from the ground up across the full stack — from data and APIs through to the experiences customers touch.

• Work AI-natively: use modern AI tooling to prototype, generate, test, and ship features across many different areas and surfaces at a pace traditional teams can’t match.

• Partner directly with product, design, business, and external supply/partner contacts — translating real-world business needs into technical solutions and owning them end-to-end.

• Lead a portfolio of fast-moving projects and help set the engineering bar for a new team, mentoring others and raising the standard for AI-accelerated delivery.

• Make pragmatic architecture decisions for systems that need to scale quickly and reliably as the vertical grows.

• Utilize programming languages like JavaScript (Angular, React, Node), HTML/CSS, TypeScript and Java, open source frameworks, RESTful web services, and work on cross-browser and cross-device development

What We’re Looking For

• Builders who have shipped their own projects end-to-end with AI — not just code-completion, but using AI across the whole build cycle.

• Engineers who move fast in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments and have launched new features at scale.

• People who are comfortable owning business and partner relationships, not just tickets.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)

• At least 1 year of experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree

• 7+ years of experience in at least one of the following: JavaScript, React, Angular, Node, TypeScript, or Java

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service

• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks

• 1+ years of people management experience

• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices

• Hands-on experience building and shipping their own projects with AI end-to-end — using interactive AI tooling to spec, generate, test, and deliver, well beyond basic code completion

• Experience launching new, customer-facing features at rapid scale in a fast-moving consumer or marketplace environment

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).