Capital One
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
$245K–$335K
McLean, VA +5 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
San Francisco, CA
Cambridge, MA
Richmond, VA
Chicago, IL
New York, NY - Experience
- At least 7 years in all listed basic-qualification areas. Preferred experience includes 10+ years in several areas, 8+ years in database systems and public cloud, 5+ years mentoring senior engineers, and 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews.
- 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 hands-on full-stack engineering and architecture, modernizing banking systems and setting technical direction, standards, and practices across teams.
What you'll do
- Define technical vision and design practical solutions; ensure the quality, performance, scalability, and operability of systems.
- Drive modernization from monoliths to microservices and event-driven platforms, and help define platform strategy and API standards.
- Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and lead cross-divisional projects and best practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 7 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.
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
Pay
$269,100 - $307,200 USD base salary (Cambridge, MA); $244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary (Chicago, IL); $269,100 - $307,200 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $293,600 - $335,100 USD base salary (New York, NY); $244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary (Richmond, VA); $293,600 - $335,100 USD base salary (San Francisco, CA)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Apply agentic AI coding tools strategically to solve systemic development challenges; preferred experience includes designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems.
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