Senior Staff Engineer & Engineering Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Sr. Director, Staff Engineer to lead a large engineering organization guiding foundational platforms and cross-functional teams.

You will drive technical strategy for Customer Management, set a multi-year agenda, and partner with product management to deliver bold roadmaps. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, elevating architectural standards and operational excellence across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science or related field.
• Extensive software engineering and enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience with API design, microservices and platform evolution.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Lead the technical agenda for foundational platforms and horizontal teams.
• Drive real-time credit decisioning and dynamic offers with data/predictive models.
• Lead hands-on full-stack work across frontend, backend and data processing.
• Mentor leaders, partner with product management on roadmaps, and coach teams.
• Decommission legacy systems and converge the destination stack.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

API design

Microservices

Cloud technologies

SRE

Leadership

Production excellence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Capital One seeks a Sr. Director, Staff Engineer to lead a large engineering organization guiding foundational platforms and cross-functional teams.

You will drive technical strategy for Customer Management, set a multi-year agenda, and partner with product management to deliver bold roadmaps. The role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, elevating architectural standards and operational excellence across the enterprise.