Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director - IC)

Capital One Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer (Director - IC) to define the cloud banking platform and lead high-impact technical initiatives.

You will mentor engineers, evangelize bold visions, decompose complex problems, and drive monolith modernization to microservices and event-driven architectures across teams. Collaborate with senior architects and product partners to deliver scalable, reliable systems while advancing the engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Leadership in engineering and architecture domains.
• Experience with cloud-native systems and scalable architectures.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration.

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.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching and strengthening engineering and product communities.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture

Microservices

Performance & scalability

Mentoring

Job description

As a Staff Engineer (Director - IC) at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Staff Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while delivering strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring engineers and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Staff Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other materials to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• 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
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture