Senior Staff Engineer: Cloud, Data & Credit Platforms

Relha LLC; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction for the Card Acquisitions domain. You will code, design, mentor, and drive scalable capabilities, balancing customer needs with business outcomes.

You will partner with ML, data, product, and people leaders to elevate engineering excellence and deliver impact across platforms. This role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architecture, and real-time decisioning work in a cloud-first environment, with remote-working options and

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Extensive cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field; Master’s preferred.
• Strong leadership of large engineering teams and programs.
• Deep experience with API design and distributed systems.
• Proven track record delivering scalable, maintainable platforms.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, scalable solutions.
• Hands-on full-stack coding across frontend, backend, data processing.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen the technical community.
• Partner with product management to set ambitious roadmaps.
• Lead design and implementation of credit and lending platforms.
• Drive real-time, data-driven experiments and platform evolution.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud computing

Solution architecture

Leadership

API design

Distributed systems

Full-stack development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Microservices

Job description

Capital One seeks a Sr Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction for the Card Acquisitions domain. You will code, design, mentor, and drive scalable capabilities, balancing customer needs with business outcomes.

You will partner with ML, data, product, and people leaders to elevate engineering excellence and deliver impact across platforms. This role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architecture, and real-time decisioning work in a cloud-first environment, with remote-working options and