Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Leadership

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead the technical vision for critical banking platforms in the cloud. You will drive architecture, scalability, and performance while mentoring engineers across teams and geographies.

You will collaborate with product, ML, and people leaders to deliver resilient, secure, and efficient systems, balancing hands-on work with strategic leadership across multiple programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, cloud and data architecture.

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 our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching and elevating others.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Serve as a force-multiplier balancing deep hands-on work with mentoring.
• Lead cross-divisional projects promoting best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go

Java

JavaScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Web technologies

Mentoring

API standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead the technical vision for critical banking platforms in the cloud. You will drive architecture, scalability, and performance while mentoring engineers across teams and geographies.

You will collaborate with product, ML, and people leaders to deliver resilient, secure, and efficient systems, balancing hands-on work with strategic leadership across multiple programs.