Staff Software Engineer - Card Technology
Capital One1 day ago
Chicago, IL, USA or McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$269k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize technical vision and target-state application architecture for card accounts and transaction platforms.
- Decompose complex problems into practical, operational, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical contribution and support to development teams while ensuring quality of design and implementation.
- Drive modernization from monolithic systems to microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Define long-term platform strategy, API standards, coding standards, and design standards with engineering and architecture leaders.
- Lead cross-divisional architectural projects and promote technology best practices.
- Advise on performance, scalability, security, operability, and other non-functional system characteristics.
- Mentor engineers, coach technical communities, support professional development, and help recruit engineering talent.
- 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 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, 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 software development lifecycle experience from conception through production support.
- Preferred 5+ years with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
- Preferred 10+ years with networking protocols and integration with third-party distributed systems.
- 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
- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment and management status.
- Performance-based incentive compensation may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
- No agencies please.
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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.