Senior Staff Software Architect & Tech Lead (Distributed)

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Financial Benefits

Performance Based Incentive

Cash Bonuses

Long Term Incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to forge the technical vision for Card Tech in Richmond, VA. You will design scalable, high-performance distributed systems and API platforms, shipping production-ready code while guiding a team of engineers.

You will mentor developers in AI-native development practices, drive cloud-native architectures, and collaborate across squads to deliver robust financial tech solutions responsibly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 9+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, and public cloud.
• Master's degree and 10+ years with event-driven architectures and cloud-native engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision for Card Tech by designing scalable, high-performance distributed systems and API platforms.
• Mentor engineers in AI-native development practices and ship production-ready code.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Backend Architecture

API Platforms

Public Cloud Technologies

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Swift

Event-Driven Systems

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to forge the technical vision for Card Tech in Richmond, VA. You will design scalable, high-performance distributed systems and API platforms, shipping production-ready code while guiding a team of engineers.

You will mentor developers in AI-native development practices, drive cloud-native architectures, and collaborate across squads to deliver robust financial tech solutions responsibly.