Staff Engineer & Technical Lead: Cloud Banking Innovator
Capital One
Don’t send a generic resume — generate a resume and cover letter tailored to this exact role.
Job summary
Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Chicago to lead technical strategy across Card Acquisitions engineering, delivering modular, scalable solutions and driving modernization across platforms. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and engineer high‑leverage projects with deep domain expertise in cloud, APIs, and distributed systems.
As a Staff Engineer, you will coordinate with product, ML, and people leaders to ship impactful features, optimize performance, and maintain operational
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
- Strong knowledge of cloud technologies and platforms.
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.
- Lead on non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability and operability.
- Coach and mentor within the engineering community.
- Design, build, and maintain a resilient, high‑performance ecosystem for portfolio growth.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Chicago to lead technical strategy across Card Acquisitions engineering, delivering modular, scalable solutions and driving modernization across platforms. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and engineer high‑leverage projects with deep domain expertise in cloud, APIs, and distributed systems.
As a Staff Engineer, you will coordinate with product, ML, and people leaders to ship impactful features, optimize performance, and maintain operational
'/%3e%3cpath%20d='M101.744%2012.4726L102.894%2016.1947L99.0021%2013.2201L101.744%2012.4726ZM105.3%208.40937H100.488L99.0026%203.59473L97.5116%208.41047L92.7%208.40385L96.5965%2011.3834L95.1055%2016.1942L99.0021%2013.2196L101.408%2011.3834L105.3%208.40992V8.40937Z'%20fill='white'/%3e%3cdefs%3e%3clinearGradient%20id='paint0_linear_5593_1381'%20x1='90'%20y1='9.44471'%20x2='99'%20y2='9.44471'%20gradientUnits='userSpaceOnUse'%3e%3cstop%20stop-color='%2300AD70'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='0.998594'%20stop-color='%2300B67A'/%3e%3cstop%20offset='1'%20stop-color='%23DCDCE6'/%3e%3c/linearGradient%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
