Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Leadership

Capital One; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical direction and architectural decisions across cloud platforms. You will architect scalable services, mentor engineers, and drive modernization from monoliths to microservices while collaborating with product teams and leaders.

You will influence platform strategy, API standards, and report directly into engineering leadership, guiding multiple high-impact initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 7 years in software engineering, enterprise architecture, and cloud computing.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision and decompose complex problems.
• Ensure design quality and scalability of systems.
• Lead cross‑divisional projects and drive platform modernization.
• Mentor engineers and drive best practices across teams.

Skills

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Public cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

Java

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

SQL

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead technical direction and architectural decisions across cloud platforms. You will architect scalable services, mentor engineers, and drive modernization from monoliths to microservices while collaborating with product teams and leaders.

You will influence platform strategy, API standards, and report directly into engineering leadership, guiding multiple high-impact initiatives across the organization.