Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical strategy, architecture, and delivery across cloud-native platforms. You will drive monolith modernization toward microservices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and architecture leaders to set long-term platform directions.

The role emphasizes non-functional excellence, high-impact projects, and active recruitment to grow Capital One Tech communities, with a strong focus on scalable, performance-oriented systems.

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, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture
• 10+ years of experience across multiple languages and systems as listed in the qualifications
• 10+ years of experience with databases and database management systems
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms and with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems

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 and scalability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge
• Handle several projects simultaneously and maximize impact
• Mentor engineers and contribute to developing the tech community
• Drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Balance deep technical work with mentoring and elevating peers
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies (JavaScript, Type‑sct

Distributed HPC/ML systems

Go/Java/JavaScript/Python/Rust/C#/SCla

Networking protocols

Mentoring/leadership

Cross-domain architectural reviews

Agentic AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical strategy, architecture, and delivery across cloud-native platforms. You will drive monolith modernization toward microservices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and architecture leaders to set long-term platform directions.

The role emphasizes non-functional excellence, high-impact projects, and active recruitment to grow Capital One Tech communities, with a strong focus on scalable, performance-oriented systems.