Lead Full-Stack Engineer for Global Payments Platform

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance based incentives

Job summary

Capital One in Chicago, IL seeks a senior Full-stack Engineer to lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers skilled in distributed microservices and cloud-native systems. You will collaborate with product managers, define platform roadmaps, and drive end-to-end design using Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript while leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

This role offers competitive pay, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; strong numerical aptitude.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with distributed microservices.
• Collaborate with product managers and define platform roadmaps and shared services.
• Drive end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale cloud-native systems with high reliability and performance.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and shape long-term technology direction.

Skills

Distributed microservices

Cloud engineering

Full-stack development

Mentoring engineers

Technical leadership

Public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP,Azure

APIs design (REST/GraphQL)

CI/CD pipelines

Git-based workflows

Observability & performance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD

Git

Terraform

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Capital One in Chicago, IL seeks a senior Full-stack Engineer to lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers skilled in distributed microservices and cloud-native systems. You will collaborate with product managers, define platform roadmaps, and drive end-to-end design using Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript while leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

This role offers competitive pay, performance incentives, and comprehensive benefits, with a focus on