Staff Full-Stack Architect: Scale, Reliability & Innovation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Incentive compensation

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer in its Auto tech space, the “Garage,” to shape architecture for national-scale auto financing systems and dealer platforms. You will lead through technical contribution, mentoring, and collaboration with senior leaders on platform strategy and API standards.

Expect a cloud-native AWS stack with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and operability, plus a culture of rigorous design and continuous learning across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years in software engineering and architecture, cloud and data domains.
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Rigorously evaluate architectural decisions for scalability and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-team standards.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-domain collaboration

Architectural judgment

Problem decomposition

Performance & scalability focus

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS or related

Master’s Degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

JavaScript

TypeScript

Java

Python

Go

Scala

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-stack Engineer in its Auto tech space, the “Garage,” to shape architecture for national-scale auto financing systems and dealer platforms. You will lead through technical contribution, mentoring, and collaboration with senior leaders on platform strategy and API standards.

Expect a cloud-native AWS stack with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and operability, plus a culture of rigorous design and continuous learning across teams.