Capital One

Staff Full-stack Engineer - Global Payment Network

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Richmond, VA, USA +3 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$245k - $335k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and evangelize technical vision and decompose complex problems into practical operational solutions.
  • Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation, including performance, scalability, and operability.
  • Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
  • Define long-term platform strategy, API standards, coding standards, and design standards with engineering and architecture leaders.
  • Deliver hands-on technical contributions across high-volume payment network products and distributed systems.
  • Mentor engineers, coach technical communities, and support professional development.
  • Lead cross-divisional projects and promote engineering best practices and innovation.
  • Create technical communications, code samples, blog posts, and other knowledge-sharing materials.

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 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 programming 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 experience across the full software development lifecycle.
  • Preferred 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
  • Preferred 10+ years of experience with networking protocols and third-party distributed-system integration.
  • Preferred 5+ years mentoring senior engineers and driving technical-team professional development.
  • 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

  • Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being, with eligibility varying by employment and management status.
  • Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
  • The role is posted for work in locations including McLean, New York, Plano, Richmond, and Riverwoods, with location-specific salary ranges.
  • Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Capital One

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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