Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Platform & Cloud Lead

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer (Director - IC) to lead technical strategy in cloud-based banking solutions. The role emphasizes architecture, scalable design, and cross-functional collaboration with ML, product, and people leaders.

You will mentor engineers, drive modernization, and shape platform standards. You’ll operate as a trusted advisor, owning non-functional characteristics like performance, operability, and scalability, while influencing across divisions and talent development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years in software engineering, architecture, cloud, and data.
• 10+ years in software engineering, architecture, web tech, cloud and data.

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 authoritative expert on 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 elevating peers.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep technical contribution with mentoring.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and promote best practices.

Skills

Cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Software architecture

Data architecture

Distributed systems design

Languages: Go/Java/JS/Python

Microservices / API design

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer (Director - IC) to lead technical strategy in cloud-based banking solutions. The role emphasizes architecture, scalable design, and cross-functional collaboration with ML, product, and people leaders.

You will mentor engineers, drive modernization, and shape platform standards. You’ll operate as a trusted advisor, owning non-functional characteristics like performance, operability, and scalability, while influencing across divisions and talent development.