Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer – Customer Platforms

Capital One

. Define and evangelize a bold technical vision for the Customer Management engineering domain .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $286,200 - $359,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsJavaJavaScriptPythonRustScalaTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evangelize a bold technical vision for the Customer Management engineering domain
Lead the technical agenda for foundational platforms and horizontal teams including SRE, Sustained Engineering, Data, and Operations
Manage the credit card customer lifecycle from offer management through retention
Drive real-time, intelligent credit decisioning and offers using novel data sources and predictive models
Lead 100+ engineers across multiple directors and develop senior technical leaders
Found and scale an SRE function to improve operational excellence
Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions
Ensure technical design and implementation quality
Advise on performance, scalability, and operability
Mentor engineers and strengthen engineering and product technical expertise
Modernize monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
Define long-term platform strategy and API standards with senior engineering and architecture leaders
Lead cross-divisional projects and promote technology best practices
Partner with product management on roadmaps expanding Capital One's reach
Perform hands-on full-stack coding across frontend, backend, data processing, and automation
Lead the strategy to decommission legacy systems and converge the destination stack
Establish and scale a hybrid SRE and Engineering Productivity function
Enable non-technical contributors to design, test, and deliver marketing experiments, UI treatments, and credit offers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), and data architecture
Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
Preferred: 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, web technologies, distributed HPC and ML systems, cloud computing, and data architecture
12+ years of professional coding experience in commonly used languages such as Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, C#, or Scala
10+ years of experience with database and database management systems
12+ years of professional experience across the full system development lifecycle
10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms, cloud-based productivity tools, or virtualization technologies
12+ years of experience with networking protocols and integration with third-party distributed systems
7+ years of experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams
3+ years of experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards
Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial and other benefits supporting total well-being
Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities