Front-end Engineer 4 (Manager, IC)
Building the engine behind modern travel experiences isn't just about moving data or building UIs—it’s about owning full-feature architecture end-to-end. As a Front End Engineer on our Cars and Ground Transportation team, you'll join a fast-moving, product-driven group of makers, doers, and disruptors scaling our travel platform. In an AI-native world, you leverage modern tooling to own the entire build from customer-facing micro-frontends to complex back-end architectures, orchestrating multi-supplier supply, reconciling inconsistent data into unified shopping experiences, and scaling distributed booking pipelines. You will own everything from pay-now vs. pay-at-desk rate processing and competitive price benchmarking to expanding our platform beyond car rentals into broader ground transport like rail and transfers. In this high-impact IC role, you’ll work side-by-side with product managers to shape feature design, challenge generated code through relentless testing, and coach junior engineers, driving transformation at the forefront of emerging technologies.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner with Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver high-performing, quality features for 100M+ customers that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
- Provide technical leadership for front-end architecture and design patterns, acting as a multiplier for your team's impact
- Mentor other engineers, fostering their growth through thoughtful feedback, code reviews, and sharing of best practices for AI-assisted development, while helping to identify and clear technical obstacles
- Grow and provide subject matter expertise in key platform areas (e.g., performance, accessibility, architecture)
- Contribute to front-end architecture decisions, API design reviews, and reusable component development
- Lead the design and development of client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) and micro frontend (MFE) or federated application architectures to deliver scalable and flexible product experiences
- Lead the implementation and refinement of well-managed engineering practices, defining best practices for feature flags and canary rollouts to improve product delivery and quality
- Champion the adoption of agentic AI tools, mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices to increase team velocity
- Apply mastery of the modern web ecosystem (including PWAs, Wasm, mobile web, and Service Workers) to make complex, high-leverage, hands-on technical contributions
- Drive a culture of quality, performance, accessibility, and customer empathy, establishing high standards for coding, testing, and user experience
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience (internship experience does not apply)
- At least 3 years of experience developing applications using TypeScript, HTML, CSS and modern web frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience with TypeScript and JavaScript
- 4+ years of experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Svelte), HTML and CSS
- Demonstrated experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Playwright) and web performance tuning
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable front-end architectures and reusable component libraries
- Experience implementing and maintaining comprehensive automated testing
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing client Backend-for-Frontends (BFFs) to orchestrate data using technologies like GraphQL and efficient networking protocols (e.g., gRPC/Protobuf)
- Demonstrated experience with micro frontend (MFE) architectures or federated architectural patterns
- Demonstrated experience in metrics-driven canary release and feature flag strategies
- Expertise with agentic AI coding tools and AI-assisted workflow patterns
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Front-end Engineer 4
New York, NY: $215,200 - $245,600 for Front-end Engineer 4
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
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