Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud Leader

Capital One; Pierre (SD); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to drive cloud-native solutions and modernize systems across multiple sites. You will lead complex projects, mentor teams, and set standards for performance and operability while collaborating with product managers, ML specialists, and architects.

Remote eligibility is available, and the role emphasizes strategic engineering leadership, robust design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact banking technology at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years in software engineering, solution architecture and cloud computing.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and data architecture.

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.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capabilities across teams.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep hands-on contribution with mentoring and elevating peers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects improving practices and capabilities.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Software engineering

API design

Performance & scalability

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

JavaScript

TypeScript

Go

Java

Python

Rust

SQL

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to drive cloud-native solutions and modernize systems across multiple sites. You will lead complex projects, mentor teams, and set standards for performance and operability while collaborating with product managers, ML specialists, and architects.

Remote eligibility is available, and the role emphasizes strategic engineering leadership, robust design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-impact banking technology at scale.