Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Full-Stack Engineer 5 in Richmond, VA to lead a portfolio of distributed applications and mentor senior engineers. You will work across Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript with AWS and other cloud services, shaping architecture and driving scalable, secure cloud-native solutions.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, deliver high-reliability systems, and help define platform roadmaps while championing best practices in CI/CD, observability, and API

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 6 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• 9+ years of coding with Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala.
• 5+ years of experience contributing to open source frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience with front-end JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers.
• Mentor other members of the engineering community and stay current with tech trends.
• Collaborate with product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions for large scale impact.
• Drive end-to-end design and implementation of distributed or cloud-native systems.
• Define platform roadmaps and shared services strategy across teams.

Skills

Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud

Frontend frameworks

APIs

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Architectural direction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Full-Stack Engineer 5 in Richmond, VA to lead a portfolio of distributed applications and mentor senior engineers. You will work across Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript with AWS and other cloud services, shaping architecture and driving scalable, secure cloud-native solutions.

You’ll collaborate with product managers, deliver high-reliability systems, and help define platform roadmaps while championing best practices in CI/CD, observability, and API