Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Platform

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One invites applications for a Staff Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Technology team in Plano, TX. You will lead architectural direction, drive modernization to microservices, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable cloud-based solutions.

The role requires strong cloud, data architecture, and enterprise pattern expertise, with a focus on performance and reliability across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• Minimum 7 years in software engineering, enterprise architecture, and cloud/data domains
• Strong cloud and data architecture experience across major platforms
• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation
• Lead non-functional characteristics like performance and operability
• Mentor engineers and drive technical community growth
• Modernize monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate on long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Balance deep technical work with mentoring peers

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Mentoring

Communication

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Leadership

Cross-domain reviews

Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Databases

Job description

Capital One invites applications for a Staff Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Technology team in Plano, TX. You will lead architectural direction, drive modernization to microservices, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable cloud-based solutions.

The role requires strong cloud, data architecture, and enterprise pattern expertise, with a focus on performance and reliability across distributed systems.