Staff Full-Stack Engineer
Capital One24 hours ago
Cambridge, MA, USA +4 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$269k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize technical vision and long-term platform strategy.
- Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions and ensure technical design and implementation quality.
- Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Define API standards and advise on performance, scalability, operability, and other non-functional characteristics.
- Lead cross-divisional architectural projects and promote engineering best practices.
- Provide hands-on technical contribution while mentoring engineers and strengthening technical expertise across engineering and product teams.
- Create technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.
- Drive innovation, architectural reviews, coding standards, and technical community development.
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 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, and 8+ years with public cloud, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- Preferred 10+ years of experience across the full system development lifecycle and networking protocols with third-party distributed systems.
- Preferred 5+ years mentoring senior engineers and 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
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Capital One offers health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- The position is available in Cambridge, Massachusetts; McLean, Virginia; Plano, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; and San Francisco, California, with location-specific salary ranges.
- Applications are expected to remain open for at least 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.