Capital One
Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer – Customer Resiliency (Senior Director, IC) (Remote-Eligible)
$286K–$392K
McLean, VA +6 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
US Remote
Richmond, VA
Chicago, IL
Plano, TX
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- At least 9 years in the specified basic-qualification areas. Preferred experience includes 12+ years in several areas and coding/system-development areas, 10+ years in databases and cloud productivity or virtualization, 7+ years mentoring senior engineers, and 3+ years leading architectural reviews or standards.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; preferred Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and hands-on engineering for customer resiliency systems, modernizing platforms and guiding architecture, implementation, and engineering talent.
What you'll do
- Define technical vision, architecture standards, and practical solutions; ensure design and implementation quality.
- Modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, while addressing performance, scalability, and operability.
- Mentor engineers, lead cross-divisional initiatives, and share technical expertise across the organization.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering; 12+ years’ experience in the listed engineering, architecture, cloud, and data areas.
- Expertise applying agentic AI coding tools to systemic development challenges; experience mentoring senior engineers and leading architectural reviews or establishing standards.
Pay
$286,200 - $326,700 USD annual base salary (Remote, Chicago, Plano, Richmond); $314,800 - $359,300 USD annual base salary (McLean); $343,400 - $392,000 USD annual base salary (New York, San Francisco)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust
AI focus
Apply agentic AI coding tools strategically to solve systemic development challenges; preferred qualification.
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