Senior Staff Software Engineer, Card Tech (AI-Driven)

ITSMF; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 343,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for Card Tech in San Francisco. You will lead high-impact technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive modernization of legacy systems toward scalable AI-native architectures.

The role emphasizes acting as a technical leader, delivering production-ready code, and setting standards across platforms while collaborating with architecture and product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 9+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data architecture.

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.
• Coach and mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Lead cross-divisional projects to promote best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

Cloud computing

Web technologies

Distributed HPC/ML

Go/Java/JS/TS/Python/Rust/C#/Scala

Database management

Public cloud platforms

Networking protocols

Mentoring engineers

Cross-domain reviews

Agentic AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for Card Tech in San Francisco. You will lead high-impact technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive modernization of legacy systems toward scalable AI-native architectures.

The role emphasizes acting as a technical leader, delivering production-ready code, and setting standards across platforms while collaborating with architecture and product teams.