Remote Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud Leader

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across the Global Payment Network. You will mentor engineers, drive microservice architectures, and partner with leaders to define platform strategy in a fintech context.

You will contribute across core domains, balancing hands-on development with high‑level design, and champion AI-enabled tooling to accelerate delivery and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead as a senior technical contributor across domains, mentoring engineers and driving architectural reviews.
• Develop and communicate a bold technical vision, decompose complex problems, and ensure scalable, high-quality designs.
• Collaborate with product and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Distributed systems

AI tooling

FinTech domain

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead technical direction across the Global Payment Network. You will mentor engineers, drive microservice architectures, and partner with leaders to define platform strategy in a fintech context.

You will contribute across core domains, balancing hands-on development with high‑level design, and champion AI-enabled tooling to accelerate delivery and quality.