Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Cloud & Platform Leader

Capital One; Illinois; On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and shape the technology strategy across cloud platforms, APIs, and scalable architectures. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional collaboration, and contribute hands-on technical leadership to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with ML, product, and people leaders to align technical direction with business outcomes, while evangelizing best practices and modernizing legacy systems within a multi-tenant cloud

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, solution architecture, enterprise architecture and cloud
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and data architecture

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics like performance and scalability
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact
• Mentor engineers and recruit to grow the tech community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems to microservices and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with leadership to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Balance deep hands-on contribution with mentoring and elevating peers
• Lead cross-divisional projects to promote best practices and enhancements
• Maintain high-quality code and participate actively in critical repos

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Web technologies

Mobile architecture

Distributed systems

API design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and shape the technology strategy across cloud platforms, APIs, and scalable architectures. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional collaboration, and contribute hands-on technical leadership to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

You will collaborate with ML, product, and people leaders to align technical direction with business outcomes, while evangelizing best practices and modernizing legacy systems within a multi-tenant cloud