Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director IC)
Capital One11 days ago
McLean, VA, USA or Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $307k/yr
Responsibilities
- Articulate and evangelize technical vision while decomposing complex problems into practical operational solutions.
- Ensure the quality of technical designs and implementations, 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.
- Provide hands-on technical contribution while mentoring engineers and strengthening engineering and product expertise.
- Lead cross-divisional projects and architectural reviews that advance technology practices.
- Create communications, code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share technical knowledge.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field is required.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture are required.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include 10+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, web technologies, distributed HPC and ML systems, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred experience includes 10+ years coding in Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala; 8+ years with databases and database management systems; and 10+ years across the full system development lifecycle.
- Preferred experience includes 5+ years with public cloud platforms, cloud productivity tools, or virtualization technologies; 10+ years with networking protocols and third-party distributed systems; and 5+ years mentoring senior engineers.
- Preferred qualifications include 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews and establishing coding and design standards.
- Expertise in strategically applying agentic AI coding tools is preferred.
Benefits
- 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 cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 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.