Staff Full-Stack Engineer
Capital One1 day ago
Chicago, IL, USA or McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize technical vision for a specialized domain.
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions while ensuring 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 platform strategy and API standards.
- 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 technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.
- Manage multiple projects and balance technical impact across the organization.
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, enterprise 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#, or Scala.
- Preferred 8+ years of experience with databases and database management systems.
- Preferred 10+ years of experience across the full system development lifecycle.
- Preferred 8+ years with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- Preferred 10+ years with networking protocols and third-party distributed-system integration.
- 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 the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools is preferred.
Benefits
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The role offers comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, potentially including cash bonuses and long-term incentives.
- The listed full-time annual salary ranges are $244,700–$279,200 in Chicago, Illinois and $269,100–$307,200 in McLean, Virginia.
- Applications are expected to be accepted for at least 5 business days.
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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.