Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Mentorship

Capital One; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead and evangelize a bold technical vision across domains. You will decompose complex problems, ensure high-quality designs, and mentor peers while modernizing monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering leaders to set platform strategy and API standards, while balancing deep hands-on work with mentoring and team elevation.

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 and solution architecture
• Experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with 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 non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability and operability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Web technologies

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

Master’s degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to lead and evangelize a bold technical vision across domains. You will decompose complex problems, ensure high-quality designs, and mentor peers while modernizing monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven architectures.

You will collaborate with engineering leaders to set platform strategy and API standards, while balancing deep hands-on work with mentoring and team elevation.