Capital One

Staff Full-stack Engineer - (Director IC - Fraud Tech)

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4 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$245k - $335k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evangelize a technical vision for fraud technology and integrated intelligent decisioning.
  • Design scalable, resilient, performant, secure-to-operate cloud-native solutions for fraud defenses and related customer and agent experiences.
  • Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
  • Define long-term platform strategy, API standards, coding standards, and enterprise architecture practices.
  • Lead cross-divisional projects, architectural reviews, and technology improvements.
  • Provide hands-on technical contribution while ensuring the quality of system design and implementation.
  • Mentor engineers, coach technical and product communities, recruit talent, and drive professional development.
  • Create technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.
  • Apply agentic AI coding tools and help shape AI-assisted development practices.
  • Balance multiple projects and serve as a technical advisor across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
  • 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 commonly used 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 full system-development lifecycle experience from conception through production support.
  • Preferred: 8+ years with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
  • Preferred: 10+ years working with networking protocols and third-party distributed-system integrations.
  • 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

  • Hybrid work arrangement with required on-site presence according to Capital One’s hybrid policy.
  • Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
  • Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses or long-term incentives.

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About Capital One

10,000+ employees

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.

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