Staff Full-stack Engineer
Capital One5 days ago
Richmond, VA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $335k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize a technical vision for the assigned domain.
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions and ensure technical design and implementation quality.
- Advise on performance, scalability, operability, and other non-functional system characteristics.
- Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture leaders on long-term platform strategy and API standards.
- Provide hands-on technical contribution while mentoring engineers and strengthening technical capabilities.
- Lead cross-divisional projects, architectural reviews, and technology best-practice initiatives.
- Create technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.
- Handle multiple projects while maximizing technical impact.
- Mentor senior engineers and support professional development within technical teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related 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, enterprise architecture and design patterns, 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 professional experience across the full system development lifecycle.
- 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 professional development within technical teams.
- Preferred 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards.
- Expertise in strategically applying agentic AI coding tools and working knowledge of AI/ML concepts.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment and management status.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The posting is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
- 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.