Staff CI/CD Engineer - Cloud Platform Innovator

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to join our cloud-focused engineering community in Chicago. You will articulate a bold technical vision, decompose complex problems into practical solutions, and ensure the quality of design and implementation across platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-divisional architectural initiatives, and lead modernization efforts toward microservice and event-driven architectures in a banking tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• 7+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, data architecture
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-divisional architectural reviews

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural thinking

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to join our cloud-focused engineering community in Chicago. You will articulate a bold technical vision, decompose complex problems into practical solutions, and ensure the quality of design and implementation across platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-divisional architectural initiatives, and lead modernization efforts toward microservice and event-driven architectures in a banking tech environment.