Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Cloud & Platforms

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

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead the Customer Platforms team in McLean, VA. You will drive technical vision, design scalable systems, and mentor a large engineering organization across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, modernizing legacy systems and delivering high-impact credit platform solutions. You will work with cloud, data and product teams to push forward innovative banking technologies, including GenAI-enabled capabilities,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 9 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong data architecture and enterprise design pattern background.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision and drive its execution.
• Lead cross-functional teams across architecture, engineering and product.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions and ensure quality.
• Drive modernization toward microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical capabilities across teams.
• Collaborate on multi-location roadmaps and strategic platform decisions.

Skills

Cloud computing

Full-stack development

Mentoring engineers

SRE awareness

GenAI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go/Java/Python

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead the Customer Platforms team in McLean, VA. You will drive technical vision, design scalable systems, and mentor a large engineering organization across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, modernizing legacy systems and delivering high-impact credit platform solutions. You will work with cloud, data and product teams to push forward innovative banking technologies, including GenAI-enabled capabilities,