Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud & Microservices Lead

Capital One; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive architecture across multiple platforms. You will decompose complex problems, ensure design quality, and mentor engineers while advancing microservices and event-driven capabilities.

You will collaborate with senior leaders on platform strategy, API standards, and governance, balancing deep coding with mentoring to elevate engineering across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with data architecture

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
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Public cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

JavaScript/TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Go

Java

Python

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive architecture across multiple platforms. You will decompose complex problems, ensure design quality, and mentor engineers while advancing microservices and event-driven capabilities.

You will collaborate with senior leaders on platform strategy, API standards, and governance, balancing deep coding with mentoring to elevate engineering across the organization.