Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud Banking, Remote

Capital One; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full‑stack Engineer in the Card Tech+ organization to drive customer resiliency initiatives within a cloud‑native, microservice environment. You will combine hands‑on coding with strategic design leadership, mentoring peers, and shaping platform standards across divisions.

The role emphasizes architecture, non‑functional requirements, and scalable solutions, with remote‑eligible options and multiple pay locations in the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelise 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 maximise 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 modernisation 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

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies (JavaScript/TypeType)

Distributed systems design

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

SQL

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full‑stack Engineer in the Card Tech+ organization to drive customer resiliency initiatives within a cloud‑native, microservice environment. You will combine hands‑on coding with strategic design leadership, mentoring peers, and shaping platform standards across divisions.

The role emphasizes architecture, non‑functional requirements, and scalable solutions, with remote‑eligible options and multiple pay locations in the US.