Senior Full-Stack Engineering Leader (IC)

Hobbsnews; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Full-stack Engineer to lead a portfolio of distributed microservices and cloud-based solutions. You’ll mentor engineers, drive architecture discussions, and work with product managers to deliver robust, scalable platforms across multiple teams.

The role emphasizes staying current with technologies, contributing to open source or internal communities, and delivering high-performance systems using Java/Scala/Python/Go, containers, and AWS services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 6 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or virtualization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with distributed microservices and full stack systems.
• Mentor other engineers and stay current with tech trends and communities.
• Collaborate with product managers to deliver robust cloud-based solutions for millions of users.
• Use Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript and various databases and AWS services.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and shape system architecture.
• Drive end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale, cloud-native systems with high reliability.
• Partner with architects and product leaders to define platform roadmaps.

Skills

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Front-end JavaScript frameworks

APIs (synchronous & asynchronous)

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Observability & performance

Git-based workflows (Git/GitHub/Bitb)

CI/CD & IaC

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in CS or related field

Master’s Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

GitHub

Bitbucket

CI/CD tools

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Full-stack Engineer to lead a portfolio of distributed microservices and cloud-based solutions. You’ll mentor engineers, drive architecture discussions, and work with product managers to deliver robust, scalable platforms across multiple teams.

The role emphasizes staying current with technologies, contributing to open source or internal communities, and delivering high-performance systems using Java/Scala/Python/Go, containers, and AWS services.