Staff Full-Stack Engineer
Capital One2 days ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$269k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Articulate and evangelize technical vision for the assigned domain.
- Decompose complex problems into practical, operational, and reusable solutions.
- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation, including performance, scalability, and operability.
- Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Define long-term platform strategy and API standards with engineering and architecture leaders.
- Provide hands-on technical contribution while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering and product expertise.
- Lead cross-divisional projects, architectural reviews, and technology best-practice initiatives.
- Create communications, code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share technical knowledge.
- Balance multiple projects and maximize organizational impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Preferred 10+ years of experience with software engineering and solution architecture, web technologies, distributed HPC and ML systems, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred 10+ years of professional coding experience with languages such as Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala.
- Preferred 8+ years of experience with databases and database management systems.
- Preferred 10+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Preferred 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- Preferred 10+ years of experience with networking protocols and integration with third-party distributed systems.
- Preferred 5+ years mentoring senior engineers and driving technical professional development.
- Preferred 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards.
- Expertise in strategically applying agentic AI coding tools is preferred.
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, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The McLean, Virginia full-time salary range is $269,100–$307,200 annually; other locations have location-specific ranges.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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About Capital One
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.