Staff Engineer: Visionary Tech Leader & Architect

Capital One Group; Virginia, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive architectural leadership and cloud-based solutions. You will work with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to shape a scalable, performant platform.

You will evangelize bold technical visions, ensure strong non-functional characteristics, and mentor teams while delivering practical designs and reusable code across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• 10+ years of professional coding experience in major languages.
• Experience with cloud technologies and modern design patterns.

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 expert on performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge.
• Handle several projects simultaneously and maximize impact.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen the technical community.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive architectural leadership and cloud-based solutions. You will work with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to shape a scalable, performant platform.

You will evangelize bold technical visions, ensure strong non-functional characteristics, and mentor teams while delivering practical designs and reusable code across the organization.