Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Cloud & Leadership

Capital One; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to influence cloud-based banking solutions and lead technical strategy across platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and collaborate with product and architecture teams to deliver scalable, high-performance systems.

You will operate as a trusted advisor, contributing code, architecture decisions, and best-practice standards while guiding cross-functional initiatives across divisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• Cloud computing experience (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• Data architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics (performance, scalability, operability).
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Coach and elevate the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Mentoring

Architectural reviews

Cross-domain collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

JavaScript

TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Go

Java

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

AWS

GCP

Azure

SQL / DB

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to influence cloud-based banking solutions and lead technical strategy across platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and collaborate with product and architecture teams to deliver scalable, high-performance systems.

You will operate as a trusted advisor, contributing code, architecture decisions, and best-practice standards while guiding cross-functional initiatives across divisions.