Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Leadership

Capital One National Association; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join a community of technical experts shaping the future of banking in the cloud. You will collaborate with developers, ML specialists, product managers and people leaders to deliver pragmatic, scalable cloud-first solutions.

As a hands-on leader and mentor, you will drive cross-functional initiatives, define long-term platform strategy, promote coding standards, and advance modernization from monoliths to microservices while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture and cloud computing
• 10+ years of experience with languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala or similar

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 (performance, scalability, operability)
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact
• Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence across teams
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven architectures
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Lead cross-divisional projects to promote best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Go/Java/JavaScript/Typescript

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in CS or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join a community of technical experts shaping the future of banking in the cloud. You will collaborate with developers, ML specialists, product managers and people leaders to deliver pragmatic, scalable cloud-first solutions.

As a hands-on leader and mentor, you will drive cross-functional initiatives, define long-term platform strategy, promote coding standards, and advance modernization from monoliths to microservices while delivering