Staff Software Engineer - Card Tech

Capital One Group; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Engineer to join Card Tech, driving the future of cloud-based banking solutions. You will lead as a high-impact individual contributor and mentor a team of engineers, delivering production-ready software with a strong emphasis on performance and reliability.

You will shape technical strategy, influence architecture across domains, and advocate best practices while partnering with product managers, data scientists, and people leaders to accelerate delivery and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms.
• Experience with public cloud technologies.
• Masters degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience with Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift.

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, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems design

Backend architecture

APIs

Cloud technologies

Mentoring

Talent acquisition

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

REST

gRPC

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

As a Staff Engineer at Capital One, you will be a 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 driving towards 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 internal talent 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 material 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.**About the Team:**Card Tech is seeking a Staff Engineer to join our team and fundamentally redefine the speed and quality of software development. We are a high-velocity, mission-driven group obsessed with bridging the gap between Intent and Execution (I=E). In this role, you won't just manage; you will operate as a \"Player-Coach,\" functioning both as a high-leverage developer who ships production-ready code in hours as well as mentoring a team to become elite AI-native builders. You will own the technical benchmark, leveraging agentic development tools to its absolute limits through rigorous, spec-driven design to solve complex problems with unprecedented urgency.This leader must have the ability to attract top-tier talent and the technical \"whisperer\" skills to ensure AI-generated output is flawless, secure, and scalable. Success requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next-generation products, and a passion for AI-native execution. You are a master of technical specifications who can translate complex architectures into simple, actionable reality. If you are a high-agency leader ready to define the 100x engineer era and make a massive, visible impact on our company trajectory, this is your team.****Key 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, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community**Basic Qualifications*** Bachelor’s Degree* At least 7 years of experience in software engineering* At least 7 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms* At least 7 years of experience with public cloud technologies**Preferred Qualifications:*** Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field* 8+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift,* 8+ years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, highly-available services* 8+ years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL, REST, API gateways, gRPC, caching, and streaming).* 8+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and automated deployment***Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.***