Staff Engineer: AI-Native Architect & Tech Leader

Capital One National Association; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead in AI-native engineering, driving a bold technical vision and high-velocity product delivery. You will mentor teams, codify best practices, and push for scalable, secure systems while partnering across product, ML, and people leadership to redefine engineering excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, cross-functional collaboration, and evangelizing architectural standards while delivering production-ready code and strategic technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and 7+ years in software engineering.
• 7+ years designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms.
• 7+ years with public cloud technologies.
• 8+ years coding in languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Swift.

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.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Backend architecture

APIs

Public cloud technologies

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

API gateways

Caching

Streaming

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

API gateways

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Caching

Streaming

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead in AI-native engineering, driving a bold technical vision and high-velocity product delivery. You will mentor teams, codify best practices, and push for scalable, secure systems while partnering across product, ML, and people leadership to redefine engineering excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, cross-functional collaboration, and evangelizing architectural standards while delivering production-ready code and strategic technical