Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices, AI

Capital One National Association; McLean, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One National Association is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive cloud-first banking platforms and lead technical direction across domains. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product managers to deliver scalable, secure solutions for global payment networks.

In this role you will champion modern architectures, oversee performance and operability, and partner with architecture leaders to set standards and advance AI-enabled tooling across the engineering community.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and data architecture.
• Strong communication and leadership for multi-team delivery.

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.
• Lead modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define platform strategy and API standards.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-domain collaboration

Cloud architecture

Education

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

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One National Association is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive cloud-first banking platforms and lead technical direction across domains. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product managers to deliver scalable, secure solutions for global payment networks.

In this role you will champion modern architectures, oversee performance and operability, and partner with architecture leaders to set standards and advance AI-enabled tooling across the engineering community.