Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type: Remote
Location: McLean, VA
Salary: $286,200–$326,700 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 2107 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1107 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer

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Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer - Global Payment Network (Remote - Eligible) joins the Global Payment Network technology organization to design and operate mission-critical systems powering complex domestic and international money movement. This role involves decomposing complex problems into practical solutions, driving the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms, and establishing API standards. You will serve as a technical authority, mentoring engineers and leading cross-divisional projects to improve performance, scalability, and operability. Required skills include software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise design patterns, cloud computing across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and data architecture. Preferred technologies include JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala, alongside experience with distributed HPC and ML systems, networking protocols, and agentic AI coding tools.

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Skills

AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Go Java JavaScript TypeScript Python Rust C# Scala Distributed Systems HPC Machine Learning API Networking Protocols

What you'll do

Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions for high-volume, low-latency payment systems.
Drive the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your specific domain.
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation across core network products.
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics like performance, scalability, and operability.
Mentor engineers and coach the technical community to strengthen collective expertise and know-how.
Collaborate with senior leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
Create clear communications, code samples, and blog posts to share knowledge inside and outside the organization.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (preferred).
12+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and data architecture (preferred).
12+ years of professional experience coding in Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala (preferred).
10+ years of experience with database management systems (preferred).
12+ years of experience in the full lifecycle of system development and networking protocols (preferred).
7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and 3+ years leading architectural reviews (preferred).

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