Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Cloud & Microservices Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director-IC) to lead as a technical expert across platforms, cloud, and data architectures. You will drive high-impact engineering initiatives, mentor peers, and shape long-term platform strategy while delivering robust, scalable software in a cloud-first environment.

You will collaborate with architects and product teams to maintain engineering excellence, improve non-functional characteristics, and evangelize best practices across divisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala
• 8+ years of experience with database and database management systems
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
• 10+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
• 2+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards
• Expertise in the strategic application of GenAI and agentic solutions to solve systemic development challenges

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, such as performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Education

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

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Cloud architecture

Data architecture

SPA frameworks

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director-IC) to lead as a technical expert across platforms, cloud, and data architectures. You will drive high-impact engineering initiatives, mentor peers, and shape long-term platform strategy while delivering robust, scalable software in a cloud-first environment.

You will collaborate with architects and product teams to maintain engineering excellence, improve non-functional characteristics, and evangelize best practices across divisions.