Staff Engineer: AI-Native Cloud Platform Leader

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer in Richmond to lead cloud-native banking initiatives and mentor a team of elite AI-native builders. You will contribute as a high-leverage developer shipping production-ready code and guiding others toward engineering excellence.

You will own technical benchmarks, translate architectures into actionable plans, and share knowledge via blogs, samples, and community contributions to accelerate innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 7+ years building distributed systems and backend architecture.
• 7+ years with public cloud technologies.
• Experience designing API platforms.
• Strong mentoring and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure high quality design and implementation.
• Lead non-functional requirements like performance and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and recruit top talent.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Backend architecture

API platforms

Public cloud technologies

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Swift

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer in Richmond to lead cloud-native banking initiatives and mentor a team of elite AI-native builders. You will contribute as a high-leverage developer shipping production-ready code and guiding others toward engineering excellence.

You will own technical benchmarks, translate architectures into actionable plans, and share knowledge via blogs, samples, and community contributions to accelerate innovation.