Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices

Capital One; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive modern microservice architectures in a cloud environment. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers and architects, and shape platform strategy while delivering scalable solutions across divisions.

You will specialize in performance, operability, and API standards, and guide multiple projects to balance hands-on work with team elevation in a dynamic banking technology setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture; enterprise architecture and design patterns; cloud computing; data architecture
• Desirable: Master’s Degree; 10+ years in software engineering, enterprise architecture, web technologies, distributed HPC/ML systems, and cloud data architectures

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 performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical expertise across teams
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven architectures
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Balance deep hands-on work with mentoring and elevating peers
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices and enhancements

Skills

Technical vision

Problem decomposition

Performance and scalability

Non-functional requirements

Mentoring engineers

Cross-domain collaboration

API standards

Cloud platforms

Software architecture

Go/Java/JavaScript/Python

Networking protocols

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related

Master’s degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to lead technical vision and drive modern microservice architectures in a cloud environment. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers and architects, and shape platform strategy while delivering scalable solutions across divisions.

You will specialize in performance, operability, and API standards, and guide multiple projects to balance hands-on work with team elevation in a dynamic banking technology setting.