Senior Staff Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 22 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 1783 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer

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Senior Staff Engineer (Remote-Eligible) joins a team of technical experts to define the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves leading through technical contribution, where you will serve as a trusted advisor for key technologies and platforms while mentoring internal talent and promoting engineering excellence. You will be responsible for articulating a bold technical vision, decomposing complex problems into practical solutions, and ensuring the quality of technical designs regarding performance, scalability, and operability. The work focuses on re-architecting foundational data platforms to replace legacy systems with modern, high-throughput, cloud-native financial engines. Required skills include extensive experience in general software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, and design patterns. Preferred qualifications include proficiency in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, and interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity within a complex distributed systems environment.

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Median $190000 from 246 postings across 56 companies.

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Skills

Java Python Go JavaScript TypeScript Swift Distributed Systems Solution Architecture Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns Data Platforms Software Engineering

What you'll do

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your specific domain.
Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions for high-throughput data platforms.
Ensure the quality of technical designs and implementations across the organization.
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics like performance and scalability.
Mentor and coach engineers to strengthen the technical expertise of the product community.
Create code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share knowledge internally and externally.
Lead the re-architecture of legacy systems into modern, cloud-native financial engines.

What we're looking for

At least 9 years of experience in General Software engineering and Solution Architecture.
At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture and Design Patterns.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience coding in languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Swift (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development (preferred).
3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies (preferred).
Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity (preferred).

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