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From the employer's careers site First seen 29 Oct 2026

Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Message Delivery & Dispatch)

Capital One staff full-time

Salary

$269,100 - $307,200 per year

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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.

What You'll Do:

  • Architect at Scale: Own the end-to-end architecture for delivery across all our properties (site, emails, SMS, push notifications, messages, AdTech ecosystems, and inbound channels) enabled by AI.
  • Governance & Compliance Stewardship: Serve as the primary technical authority on email governance and evolving regulatory standards.
  • Drive Message Delivery Platform Convergence: Lead the technical strategy to modernize legacy messaging systems into a unified Enterprise Message Delivery platform.
  • Build Automations: Implement automations across various workflows to avoid expensive migrations and establish engineering standards.
  • Vendor strategy: Help drive decision making around vendor strategy for build vs. buy.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentorship: Act as the technical leader for engineering teams (Message Delivery, Orchestration, Integration) in the dispatch domain.
  • Stay current with industry trends and bring best practices and recommendations to drive innovation.
  • Data Product Competency & Observability: Drive a data-first approach to platform health by treating delivery metrics as a first-class product.

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
  • At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • At least 2 years of experience of deploying and delivering platforms within cloud environments
  • At least 1 year of hands-on experience with LLM systems

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
  • 10+ years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • 10+ years of experience in Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
  • 10+ years of experience in Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
  • 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • 10+ years of experience in Data architecture
  • 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
  • 5+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams

Salary Information:

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100 Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200

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 or Software Engineering
  • Web technologies
  • distributed HPC and ML systems
  • Cloud computing
  • Data architecture
  • public cloud platforms
  • mentoring senior engineers
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