Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud & GenAI Innovator

ITSMF; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director-IC) to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead as a trusted technical advisor, drive modernization to microservices, and mentor engineers across teams.

This role blends deep hands-on coding with architectural leadership and cross-divisional collaboration. You will evangelize a bold technical vision, ensure design quality, and collaborate on platform strategy while promoting inclusive practices and advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field.
• 7+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud design.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and data architecture.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, MPC/HL and HPC experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Mentor engineers and coach the technical community across divisions.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Web technologies

Networking protocols

Mentoring

GenAI

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director-IC) to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead as a trusted technical advisor, drive modernization to microservices, and mentor engineers across teams.

This role blends deep hands-on coding with architectural leadership and cross-divisional collaboration. You will evangelize a bold technical vision, ensure design quality, and collaborate on platform strategy while promoting inclusive practices and advancing