Capital One
Full-stack Engineer 4 (Go, AWS)
$179K–$205K
Richmond, VA · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience and at least 2 years with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies. Preferred experience includes 7+ years coding with more than two listed languages and additional role-specific experience ranging from 1+ to 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; preferred Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer immigration-related support for this position.
About the job
Architects and builds resilient, high-concurrency APIs and middleware for credit-card participant management across Capital One’s servicing platforms.
What you'll do
- Architect, implement, and harden distributed APIs, focusing on fault tolerance, error handling, and data consistency.
- Lead technical direction across Agile teams and collaborate with product, infrastructure, servicing partners, and architects.
- Improve system performance and reliability through refactoring, code reviews, testing, and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 4 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply).
- At least 2 years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with Go, distributed systems, AWS, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and modern AI-based coding tools.
Pay
$179,400 - $204,700 USD base salary
Tools
Go, AWS Lambda, Durable Lambdas, API Gateway, CDK/TypeScript, Java, Scala, Python
AI focus
Preferred experience includes using modern AI-based coding tools and IDE copilots, and interactive AI tooling beyond basic code completion.
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