Remote Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud-Native FinTech

Capital One Group; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One, a leading fintech innovator, seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer (remote-eligible) to define and deliver scalable cloud platforms for the Global Payment Network. The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration across product and risk teams, and mentoring engineers while shaping API standards and platform strategy.

You will drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices, pair with architecture leadership, and deploy high-throughput, secure payment solutions across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, and enterprise design patterns.
• Experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript) and distributed systems.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or digital payment architectures is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operable solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-divisional architectural reviews.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Python

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One, a leading fintech innovator, seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer (remote-eligible) to define and deliver scalable cloud platforms for the Global Payment Network. The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration across product and risk teams, and mentoring engineers while shaping API standards and platform strategy.

You will drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices, pair with architecture leadership, and deploy high-throughput, secure payment solutions across