Staff Software Engineer, Risk Tech — Cloud & Scale Architect

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Risk Technology organization in Cambridge, MA, leading technical direction and architectures for scalable cloud solutions. You will guide complex problem solving and mentor engineers across teams.

You will collaborate with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to advance innovation, performance and operability while promoting an inclusive engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking)
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies.

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 (performance, scalability, operability).
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Mentor and coach within the tech community to strengthen engineering talent.
• Ensure Code is of the highest quality and review critical repos.
• Develop full stack applications with frontend and backend ecosystems.
• Serve as technical authority on non-functional architecture and enterprise readiness.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Web technologies

Cloud computing

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Risk Technology organization in Cambridge, MA, leading technical direction and architectures for scalable cloud solutions. You will guide complex problem solving and mentor engineers across teams.

You will collaborate with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to advance innovation, performance and operability while promoting an inclusive engineering culture.