Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Remote Innovator

Capital One; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead high-impact initiatives in a cloud-based environment. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable, secure solutions across platforms.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and modernization of systems into microservices while supporting a culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, data architecture
• Preferred: Master’s degree and 12+ years of experience in the listed areas

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Java

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

SPA frameworks

Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead high-impact initiatives in a cloud-based environment. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable, secure solutions across platforms.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and modernization of systems into microservices while supporting a culture of engineering excellence.