Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & AI Leader

Capital One; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive modernization across platforms in a cloud-first environment. You will collaborate with engineers, ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.

You’ll mentor peers, define API standards, and contribute to strategic platform direction while balancing hands-on work with architectural leadership.

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, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing and 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, coaching and strengthening 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 technical contribution and mentoring
• Lead cross-divisional projects to promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Design patterns

Go/Java/JavaScript

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

SPA frameworks

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive modernization across platforms in a cloud-first environment. You will collaborate with engineers, ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.

You’ll mentor peers, define API standards, and contribute to strategic platform direction while balancing hands-on work with architectural leadership.