Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud & Microservices Leader

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to drive architectural vision and technical excellence across cloud-native platforms. You will lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

You will evangelize best practices in performance, scalability, and operability while guiding modernizing monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, cloud, and data.
• Experience with modern web technologies and distributed systems.

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 performance, scalability, and operability.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices.
• Mentor engineers and coach the technical community.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Leadership & mentoring

Education

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

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Go

Java

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to drive architectural vision and technical excellence across cloud-native platforms. You will lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

You will evangelize best practices in performance, scalability, and operability while guiding modernizing monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven architectures.