Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud-Native Leader & Mentor

Capital One; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to shape the technical vision, decompose complex problems, and drive practical, scalable solutions across platforms. The role blends high-level architectural influence with hands-on engineering leadership.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with ML, product, and people leaders, and advance microservice and event-driven architectures while balancing delivery and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture; enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an expert on nonfunctional system characteristics (performance, scalability, operability).
• Continuing learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor within the tech community and coach engineers.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems toward microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Balance deep technical contribution with mentoring and elevating peers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects that promote best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master’s Degree

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer to shape the technical vision, decompose complex problems, and drive practical, scalable solutions across platforms. The role blends high-level architectural influence with hands-on engineering leadership.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with ML, product, and people leaders, and advance microservice and event-driven architectures while balancing delivery and innovation.