Staff Full-Stack Architect: Scale & Modernize Systems

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Plano, TX to drive technical strategy across auto financing platforms and microservices. You will mentor engineers, set architecture direction, and ensure scalable, reliable delivery in a cloud-native AWS environment.

You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, product leaders, and cross-divisional teams to modernize monoliths, promote API standards, and elevate engineering excellence at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 7 years of software engineering, solution architecture, and enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Rigorously evaluate architectural and design decisions for scalability limits, data consistency tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability before committing to an approach.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Data architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

APIs / microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in Plano, TX to drive technical strategy across auto financing platforms and microservices. You will mentor engineers, set architecture direction, and ensure scalable, reliable delivery in a cloud-native AWS environment.

You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, product leaders, and cross-divisional teams to modernize monoliths, promote API standards, and elevate engineering excellence at scale.