Description
As a Staff Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.
You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders.
Our Staff Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems.
You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while delivering strong technology solutions.
At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organisational boundaries.
You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed.
You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring engineers and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
Staff Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution.
You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other materials to share knowledge both inside and outside the organisation.
You will specialise in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organisation.
About the Team: As a Staff Engineer, in the Servicing Platform space you will partner alongside Product and Engineering teams to build and deliver innovative solutions at an enterprise scale.
You will be involved in continuously helping to build and improve our platforms to ensure security, performance, maintainability, and usability are best-in-class.
What You’ll Do:
- Articulate and evangelise a bold technical vision for your domain
- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
- Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
- Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
- Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximise impact
- Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
- Drive modernisation of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
- Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
- Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
- Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
- At least 7 years of experience in all of the following:
- Software engineering and solution architecture
- Enterprise architecture and design patterns
- Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
- Data architecture
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python or Go
- 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- Experience architecting AI driven solutions and workflows
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location.
McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Staff Full-stack Engineer
Plano, TX: $244,700 - $279,200 for Staff Full-stack Engineer
Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Staff Full-stack Engineer