Staff Engineer & Tech Lead - Cloud Banking Innovator

Capital One National Association; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentives

Job summary

Capital One, Chicago, seeks a Staff Engineer - Technical Lead to drive the technical agenda for Card Acquisitions. You will lead through technical contribution, mentor engineers, and craft modular, reusable enterprise capabilities across FDE squads.

The role blends architecture with hands-on delivery across diverse codebases. You will shape the technical strategy, collaborate with product teams, and champion performance, scalability, and operability while delivering high‑leverage projects and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• 7+ years in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• 4+ years API design, microservices and platform evolution in HA/throughput environments.
• Experience partnering with product management and stakeholders on product strategy.
• 7+ years coding in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as expert on non‑functional characteristics like performance, scalability, operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor within the tech community and strengthen engineering know-how.
• Design, build, and maintain a resilient, high‑performance ecosystem.
• Maximize efficiency and capability of core credit decisioning systems.
• Engineer frontend capabilities for rapid deployment of new user flows and offers.
• Act as technical catalyst to translate business intents into scalable software.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in CS

Tools

API design

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Job description

Capital One, Chicago, seeks a Staff Engineer - Technical Lead to drive the technical agenda for Card Acquisitions. You will lead through technical contribution, mentor engineers, and craft modular, reusable enterprise capabilities across FDE squads.

The role blends architecture with hands-on delivery across diverse codebases. You will shape the technical strategy, collaborate with product teams, and champion performance, scalability, and operability while delivering high‑leverage projects and