Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud Native & AWS

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer 4 to lead and mentor teams building cloud-native microservices and full-stack systems on AWS. You will drive architectural decisions, improve developer tooling, and deliver robust cloud solutions for scalable financial services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, focus on developer experience, and ownership mindset in a dynamic, inclusive environment. Strong Java/Scala/Python/Go/Node.js/TypeScript skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (CS, math, analytics).
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience (internships excluded).
• At least 2 years of public cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams across microservices and full-stack systems.
• Advance developer experience and AI workflows within internal tools and platforms.
• Deliver cloud-based solutions on AWS to scale for large user bases.
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling and code quality improvements.
• Collaborate with product managers to define technical strategy and architecture.
• Drive refactoring to reduce technical debt and improve performance.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Distributed microservices

AWS

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Node.js

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git/GitHub

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer 4 to lead and mentor teams building cloud-native microservices and full-stack systems on AWS. You will drive architectural decisions, improve developer tooling, and deliver robust cloud solutions for scalable financial services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, focus on developer experience, and ownership mindset in a dynamic, inclusive environment. Strong Java/Scala/Python/Go/Node.js/TypeScript skills are required.