Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Remote, Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead architectural decisions and drive modernization across platforms. This remote-eligible role focuses on creating scalable systems, mentoring teams, and delivering high-impact technology solutions for complex payments infrastructure.

The candidate will work with cloud, data, and core engineering teams, shaping platform strategy and API standards while contributing hands-on coding and architectural reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
• 12+ years of experience across software engineering and solution architecture.
• Experience with cloud computing and data architecture.
• Strong experience with web technologies and distributed systems.

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 performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor engineers and grow the capabilities of the team.
• Drive modernization toward microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance hands-on work with mentoring to elevate peers and juniors.
• Lead cross-divisional projects to promote best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

APIs and integration

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

Java

Python

C#

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead architectural decisions and drive modernization across platforms. This remote-eligible role focuses on creating scalable systems, mentoring teams, and delivering high-impact technology solutions for complex payments infrastructure.

The candidate will work with cloud, data, and core engineering teams, shaping platform strategy and API standards while contributing hands-on coding and architectural reviews.