Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Card Tech

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco to lead design and delivery of critical card tech platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive cloud-based solutions, and partner with product and ML teams to ship scalable services.

You will own technical direction across domains, influence architectural decisions, and champion engineering excellence while maintaining an inclusive, collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms.
• Experience with public cloud technologies.
• Master's degree preferred and 10+ years in related 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, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Public cloud technologies

API design & gateways

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST APIs

gRPC

Job description

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Card Tech As a Sr. Staff Engineer at Capital One, you will be a 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 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 driving towards 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 internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community. 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 material 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.

Key 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 9 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms.
• At least 9 years of experience with public cloud technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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, 10+ years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, highly-available services.
• 10+ years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL, REST, API gateways, gRPC, caching, and streaming).
• 10+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and automated deployment.

Salary

• Chicago, IL: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer.
• McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer.
• New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000 for Sr Distinguished Engineer.
• Richmond, VA: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer.
• San Francisco, CA: $343,400 - $392,000 for Sr Distinguished Engineer.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit.