Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud & Microservices Leader

Capital One Group; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to join the Network Authorizations Switch team in Chicago. You will lead technical initiatives, decompose complex problems, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions across microservices and event-driven systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate with architecture leaders to shape platform strategy. This role emphasizes performance, reliability, and operability, with opportunities to influence across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 10+ years in software engineering, architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with web technologies and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, scalable solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies (JavaScript/TypeChat)

Distributed systems

Programming languages (Go)

Programming languages (Java)

Programming languages (JavaScript/Type

Programming languages (Python)

Programming languages (Rust)

Programming languages (C#)

Programming languages (Scala)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to join the Network Authorizations Switch team in Chicago. You will lead technical initiatives, decompose complex problems, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions across microservices and event-driven systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive best practices, and collaborate with architecture leaders to shape platform strategy. This role emphasizes performance, reliability, and operability, with opportunities to influence across the