Staff Full-Stack Engineer & Cloud Architect

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

Job summary

Capital One staff engineer role in Plano, TX seeks a senior technologist who leads architectural effort across cloud platforms. You will drive scalable, secure designs, mentor peers, and steer monoliths toward microservices and event-driven solutions with API standards.

Candidate will combine deep software engineering with enterprise architecture and data expertise, collaborating with product and people leaders to deliver business outcomes at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field and relevant experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering, architecture, and cloud experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and data architecture.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-team architectural efforts.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision for domains and decompose problems into pragmatic solutions.
• Ensure high quality of design and implementation across platforms.
• Lead modernization to microservices, event-driven architectures, and API standards.
• Mentor engineers and drive professional development across teams.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software architecture

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Go

Java

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Scala

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SPA frameworks (JavaScript/TypeScript)

Databases

Job description

Capital One staff engineer role in Plano, TX seeks a senior technologist who leads architectural effort across cloud platforms. You will drive scalable, secure designs, mentor peers, and steer monoliths toward microservices and event-driven solutions with API standards.

Candidate will combine deep software engineering with enterprise architecture and data expertise, collaborating with product and people leaders to deliver business outcomes at scale.