Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Card Tech

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Financial Benefits

Performance Based Incentive

Cash Bonuses

Long Term Incentives

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a senior engineering leader to drive the Card Tech program, designing scalable distributed systems and API platforms while contributing production code.

You will mentor engineers in AI-native development practices and work with teams to advance cloud-native architectures, event-driven design, and modern API ecosystems across the organization.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision for Card Tech and design scalable distributed systems and API platforms.
• Ship production code while mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cloud-native architecture and modern API ecosystems.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Backend Architecture

API Platforms

Public Cloud Technologies

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Swift

Event-Driven Systems

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Lead the technical vision for Card Tech by designing scalable, high-performance distributed systems and API platforms. Act as a player-coach by shipping production code while mentoring engineers in AI-native development practices.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 9 years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, and public cloud technologies. Preferred candidates have a Master's degree and 10+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering and event-driven architectures.

Key Skills

• Distributed Systems
• Backend Architecture
• API Platforms
• Public Cloud Technologies
• Java
• Python
• Go
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Swift
• Event-Driven Systems
• GraphQL
• REST
• gRPC
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Financial Benefits
• Performance Based Incentive Compensation
• Cash Bonuses
• Long Term Incentives