Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud & Microservices

Capital One; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical efforts across banking cloud platforms, drive scalable architectures, and mentor engineers. You will influence design, performance, and operability while coordinating with product managers and leaders to deliver robust solutions.

In this role, you’ll drive modernization of systems, collaborate with architecture leaders, and contribute through technical leadership and hands-on work across multiple teams and domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
• At least 7 years in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud, and data architecture.

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 authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics (performance, scalability).
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor within the tech community and coach engineers.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep technical contribution with mentoring of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Distributed systems

Networking

Mentoring

Go/Java/JS/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead technical efforts across banking cloud platforms, drive scalable architectures, and mentor engineers. You will influence design, performance, and operability while coordinating with product managers and leaders to deliver robust solutions.

In this role, you’ll drive modernization of systems, collaborate with architecture leaders, and contribute through technical leadership and hands-on work across multiple teams and domains.