Staff Engineer - AI-Native Card Tech & Cloud Platforms

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer within Card Tech in New York, NY. You will lead the technical vision, decompose complex problems, and ensure scalable, secure designs while mentoring engineers and driving AI-native execution.

The role emphasizes high-velocity development, production-ready code, and cross-functional collaboration with product managers and people leaders to deliver impactful, scalable banking solutions in the cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 7+ years in software engineering with distributed systems.
• Experience with public cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operable solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Coach and strengthen the technical expertise of the engineering and product community.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Backend architecture

Public cloud

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Kubernetes

Docker

API design

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer within Card Tech in New York, NY. You will lead the technical vision, decompose complex problems, and ensure scalable, secure designs while mentoring engineers and driving AI-native execution.

The role emphasizes high-velocity development, production-ready code, and cross-functional collaboration with product managers and people leaders to deliver impactful, scalable banking solutions in the cloud.