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Full-stack Engineer 5 (GraphDB & API Platform)

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$229,900 - $262,400 per year

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Description

At Capital One, you'll be part of a team that solves complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment.

We're seeking a Full-stack Engineer 5 to provide technical leadership across foundational enterprise platforms and regulatory tech initiatives. In this role, you will lead the architecture, modernization, and evolution of large-scale, distributed customer data and relationship capabilities, while guiding teams of developers in building resilient cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the architecture, end-to-end design, and implementation of highly available, resilient, and scalable cloud-native microservices, APIs, data contracts, and shared platform services.
  • Provide technical vision for modernizing foundational customer data platforms while ensuring interoperability, continuity, and consistent interaction patterns across evolving database technologies and distributed systems.
  • Partner with digital product managers, database architects, and engineering leaders to define long-term technology directions, system architectures, and self-service capabilities that streamline regulatory compliance and developer onboarding.
  • Drive automation, observability, and robust engineering practices to minimize manual processes, improve developer productivity, and ensure superior system reliability and performance.
  • Leverage cutting-edge tools including Java, Scala, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, Open Source RDBMS, NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.
  • Influence technical strategy across multiple engineering teams, mentor and grow technical talent, experiment with emerging tech trends, and actively contribute to internal and external engineering communities.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 6 years of experience in software engineering.
  • At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 9+ years of software development experience coding in two or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, Scala, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, or C#.
  • 5+ years of experience contributing to open-source frameworks.
  • 5+ years of experience with modern front-end JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks.
  • 5+ years of experience designing and building synchronous/asynchronous APIs and designing robust API platform architectures.
  • 5+ years of experience leveraging GraphDB platforms alongside 4+ years of hands-on experience with traditional database and database management systems (DBMS).

Salary: McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Full-stack Engineer 5 Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Full-stack Engineer 5

Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science
  • 9+ years of software development experience
  • open-source frameworks
  • modern front-end JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks
  • API platform architectures
  • GraphDB platforms
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