Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

Capital One; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer for a remote-eligible role. You will join a team of experts delivering cloud-first banking solutions and will drive architectural excellence across platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, contribute technically, and help modernize complex systems into scalable microservices. You will engage with data and distributed systems, advocate best practices, and influence product directions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 9+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud.
• Experience with cloud platforms and data architecture.
• Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and SPA frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical 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 our community.
• Lead multiple projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across teams.
• Drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep coding with mentoring to elevate peers and juniors.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

SPA frameworks

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go/Java/Python

SQL/Databases

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Master's in CS/Software Eng (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer for a remote-eligible role. You will join a team of experts delivering cloud-first banking solutions and will drive architectural excellence across platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, contribute technically, and help modernize complex systems into scalable microservices. You will engage with data and distributed systems, advocate best practices, and influence product directions.