
Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director IC) - Partner Experience
Capital One3 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize technical vision, architecture, and long-term platform strategy for partner experience systems.
- Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Design and build high-performance, modular web applications and self-service partner portals.
- Define API standards, enterprise front-end patterns, coding standards, accessibility standards, and UI standards.
- Ensure technical design and implementation quality, performance, scalability, operability, and secure client-side communication.
- Lead cross-domain architectural reviews and cross-divisional technology initiatives.
- Provide hands-on technical contributions while mentoring engineers and coaching engineering teams.
- Create technical documentation, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.
- Handle multiple projects and collaborate with engineering, product, and technology leaders.
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 8+ years of full-stack software engineering and solution architecture, cloud computing with serverless or containerized deployments, and full-lifecycle system development.
- Preferred 6+ years with modern web technologies and SPA frameworks, backend development and service orchestration, and relational and NoSQL database management systems.
- Preferred 4+ years with micro-frontends, design systems, BFF architecture, client-side state management, modern build tooling, automated test frameworks, responsive web architecture, web performance, accessibility, web protocols, and web security.
- Preferred 2+ years mentoring senior engineers, coaching engineering teams, leading cross-domain architectural reviews, and setting coding, accessibility, and UI standards.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience applying agentic AI coding tools strategically to solve systemic development challenges.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with required on-site presence at the designated office location.
- Capital One offers 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 potential cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- 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.