Staff Software Engineer

Overview

What You'll Do

• Articulate and evangelize 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 maximize 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 modernization 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 software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 7 years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• At least 7 years of experience in data architecture.

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 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.
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Go, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, Rust, C#, Scala.
• 8+ years of experience with database and database management systems.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
• 8+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
• 10+ years of experience with Networking protocols and integration with third party distributed systems.

Compensation

• Plano, TX: $244,700 - $279,200 for Staff Full-stack Engineer.
• The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed by location.
• This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

• Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

Application Notes

• Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
• This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• No agencies please.