Capital One

Staff Full Stack Engineer, AI & Emerging Tech

Capital One
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3 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA +2 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$251k - $286k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead a portfolio of technology projects and a team of developers building distributed microservices and full-stack systems.
  • Design and implement large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
  • Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and shape system architecture, platform roadmaps, and long-term technology direction.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and product leaders to deliver cloud-based solutions and define shared-services strategy.
  • Mentor engineers, support professional development, and contribute to internal and external technology communities.
  • Establish coding standards, design patterns, observability practices, and reliability practices across teams.
  • Lead architectural design reviews and cross-functional engineering initiatives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience; internship experience does not apply.
  • At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
  • Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Preferred: 9 or more years coding with more than two of Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala.
  • Preferred: experience with open source frameworks, front-end JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks, synchronous and asynchronous APIs, databases, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and Git-based version control.
  • Preferred: experience troubleshooting cloud environments, mentoring senior engineers, using observability to optimize distributed systems, and implementing reliability practices at scale.
  • Preferred: experience with AI-based coding tools, interactive AI tooling, architectural design reviews, enterprise technology standards, coding standards, design patterns, technology strategy, and large-scale technical initiatives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
  • Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
Capital One

About Capital One

10,000+ employees

Capital One is a U.S. consumer and commercial bank that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and lending to small and large businesses. It earns revenue from interest income and interchange/fees across its card and banking products, and develops cloud-based digital services. Founded in 1994, Capital One is publicly traded on the NYSE (COF) and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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