Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
McLean, VARichmond, VAPlano, TXRiverwoods, IL
Salary
$286,200–$326,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $306k
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $194,800–$261,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $306k versus about $228k for comparable roles.

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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 1743 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 947 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer

As a Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer within the Global Payment Network team, you will serve as a technical expert and trusted advisor focused on building mission-critical systems for domestic and international money movement. You will decompose complex problems into practical solutions, drive the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures, and establish API standards while mentoring other engineers. Your daily work involves managing high-volume, low-latency distributed ecosystems to improve transaction processing and fraud mitigation. The role requires expertise in software architecture, cloud computing across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and data architecture. You will utilize technologies including Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, and Scala. Additionally, you will leverage agentic AI coding tools and web technologies to manage real-time distributed data systems and high-volume pipelines within the payment processing domain.

What does a Full Stack Engineer earn in Virginia?

Median $211200 from 204 postings across 5 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Decompose complex technical problems into practical, scalable, and operational solutions for high-volume payment systems.
  • Drive the modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
  • Serve as a technical authority on non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, and operability.
  • Define long-term platform strategies and API standards in collaboration with engineering and architecture leaders.
  • Mentor engineers and coach the community to strengthen technical expertise and promote engineering excellence.
  • Create technical content such as code samples and blog posts to share knowledge internally and externally.
  • Implement AI-native engineering practices and agentic AI tools to solve systemic development challenges.
  • Lead cross-divisional projects that establish coding standards and promote best practices across 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 languages such as 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 public cloud platforms (preferred).
  • 12+ years of experience with networking protocols and integration with third-party distributed systems (preferred).

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