Director & Staff Engineer — Cloud AI Platform

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Chicago, IL seeks a Director, Staff Engineer for Consumer Card Partnerships to lead technical vision and cross‑functional execution. You will drive architecture, reaffirm scalable cloud systems and mentor engineers across teams, delivering high-impact engineering outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, and business partners to advance Capital One’s engineering excellence while shaping adoption strategies for AI-powered workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development in languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift
• 8+ years of full lifecycle of system development
• 3+ years of experience with cloud technologies
• Experience driving AI-enabled engineering at scale

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Additional responsibilities added at hiring manager’s discretion

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

AI-enabled engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Capital One in Chicago, IL seeks a Director, Staff Engineer for Consumer Card Partnerships to lead technical vision and cross‑functional execution. You will drive architecture, reaffirm scalable cloud systems and mentor engineers across teams, delivering high-impact engineering outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, design, and business partners to advance Capital One’s engineering excellence while shaping adoption strategies for AI-powered workflows.