Staff Software Engineer - Card Technology

Capital One; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a senior leader to champion the technical architecture and engineering strategy for its card technology platforms. You will drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven systems, shaping API and architecture standards across teams.

In this role you will mentor engineers, support delivery teams, and steer cross-divisional technical initiatives, requiring hands-on software engineering, cloud expertise, data architecture, and distributed systems thought

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture and engineering strategy for the card technology platforms.
• Modernize monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms.
• Define API and architecture standards, ensuring performance and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and support development teams on cross-divisional initiatives.

Job description

Leads technical architecture and engineering strategy for Capital One's card technology platforms.

Responsibilities include modernizing monolithic systems into microservices and event-driven platforms, defining API and architecture standards, ensuring performance and scalability, mentoring engineers, supporting development teams, and leading cross-divisional technical initiatives. The role requires hands-on software engineering, cloud computing, data architecture, enterprise design patterns, distributed systems, and technical thought leadership.