Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Sr. Director - IC)

HITEC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Sr. Director - IC) to lead technical strategy and deliver scalable cloud-based banking solutions. You will drive modernization efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product managers and leaders to shape platform direction.

You will serve as a trusted advisor on performance, scalability, and operability while contributing hands-on technical work and publishing knowledge across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 9+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• 9+ years in web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, SPA) and ML lifecycle.
• Cloud computing experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Data architecture experience.

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.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Coach and mentor engineers; contribute to a strong engineering culture.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep technical work with mentoring and elevating peers and junior engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Web technologies

Cloud computing

Data architecture

ML lifecycle

Public cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Sr. Director - IC)

As a Senior Staff Engineer (Sr. Director - IC) at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Senior Staff Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while delivering strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring engineers and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Senior Staff Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other materials to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

What You'll Do:

• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in
  • General software
    • Software engineering and solution architecture
    • Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • Software specializations
    • Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
    • Full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
  • Other specializations
    • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
    • Data architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion