Staff Engineer, Marketing & Sales

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Richmond, VAMcLean, VA
Salary
$269,100–$307,200 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $205k
This role $288k
$143k most similar roles pay here $325k

This role pays more than 97% of similar roles. Most pay $173,875–$237,087 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $288k versus about $205k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Marketing & Sales

Staff Engineer - Marketing & Sales joins the Business Cards & Payment team to drive the transition toward agentic AI systems for real-time marketing and personalized sales. This role involves defining long-term technical strategies, prototyping new features, and building destination architectures for marketing platforms while ensuring existing systems remain healthy. You will act as a trusted advisor on core technologies, providing architectural guidance for large-scale programs, and mentoring the engineering community to foster excellence. The work focuses on developing assistive tools for field agents and autonomous sales agents that self-improve via RLAIF. Required skills include experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and AWS cloud computing. Preferred qualifications include expertise in agentic AI systems and proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift to solve complex problems in the banking sector.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Prototype and assess new technologies for hyper-personalized marketing and assistive field sales systems.
  • Define long-term technical strategy and architecture for agentic AI systems.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, and operability.
  • Provide architectural guidance and design for large-scale cross-domain programs.
  • Create code samples, blog posts, and other materials to share knowledge internally and externally.
  • Mentor and coach the engineering community to strengthen technical expertise and talent.
  • Evaluate "build vs. buy" decisions for core technologies and platforms.
  • Resolve technical and process roadblocks for developers across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
  • 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 3 years of experience with AWS.
  • 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).
  • 10+ years of experience coding in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift.
  • 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development.
  • 2+ years of experience working on applied and agentic AI systems.

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