Capital One
Staff Software Engineer
$245K–$279K
Plano, TX · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- At least 7 years across the listed basic qualification areas. Preferred: 10+ years across several listed areas, including coding and full lifecycle system development; 8+ years in databases and cloud platforms; 5+ years mentoring senior engineers; 2+ years leading cross-domain architectural reviews.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for cloud banking platforms, modernizing systems and setting architecture and engineering standards across teams.
What you'll do
- Define technical vision, review designs and implementations, and guide performance, scalability, and operability.
- Modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms; shape platform strategy and API standards.
- Lead cross-divisional initiatives while mentoring engineers and sharing technical expertise.
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
$244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Preferred expertise applying agentic AI coding tools to systemic development challenges; preferred experience designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems.
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