Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud-Native & AI-Driven

Capital One National Association; Little Rock Township (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive the bold technical vision for our cloud-native platforms. You will lead architecture across domains, modernize systems into microservices, and evangelize scalable design while mentoring engineers and contributing hands-on coding.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, influence API standards, and champion AI tooling to accelerate development while delivering robust, secure, and compliant solutions across international rails.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering, architecture, cloud, and data experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical contribution and architecture across platforms.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and drive professional development across teams.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with architecture leaders to define platform strategy and API standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Go/Java/JavaScript

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in CS or Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive the bold technical vision for our cloud-native platforms. You will lead architecture across domains, modernize systems into microservices, and evangelize scalable design while mentoring engineers and contributing hands-on coding.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, influence API standards, and champion AI tooling to accelerate development while delivering robust, secure, and compliant solutions across international rails.