Capital One
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
$269K–$335K
McLean, VA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
New York, NY - Experience
- At least 7 years in each of the stated basic-qualification areas; preferred experience includes 10+ years in several areas and additional experience thresholds of 8, 5, and 2 years.
- 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 architecture and hands-on engineering for growing Business Travel products, including international expansion, inventory, expense management, and partner integrations.
What you'll do
- Set technical vision, design standards, and long-term platform strategy; ensure technical design and implementation quality.
- Modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, addressing performance, scalability, and operability.
- Lead cross-divisional work and mentor engineers while contributing hands-on and sharing technical knowledge.
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
USD $269,100 - $307,200 base salary (McLean, VA); USD $293,600 - $335,100 base salary (New York, NY)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Preferred expertise in applying agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges; preferred experience designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems.
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