Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Capital One National Association; New York (NY); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One National Association is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer in New York, NY to lead technical vision, architecture, and cross‑functional collaboration across engineering, ML, product management, and people leadership. The role emphasizes modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event‑driven platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform strategy, and influence API standards while working with senior leaders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field required.
• 9+ years of software engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience in full lifecycle of system development.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead modernization and set API standards across platforms.
• Mentor engineers and influence across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Web technologies

Cloud computing

Data architecture

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Java

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

Go

Job description

As a Senior Staff Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next‑generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring engineers and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Senior Staff Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other materials to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• 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 non‑functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event‑driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long‑term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force‑multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands‑on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross‑divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full‑time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part‑time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 for Sr. Staff Full-stack Engineer

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in
  • General software
    • Software engineering and solution architecture
    • Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • Software specializations
    • Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
    • Full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
  • Other specializations
    • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
    • Data architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).