Sr. Staff Software Engineer Card Tech
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
As a Sr. Staff Engineer at Capital One you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.
You will work alongside our talented team of developers machine learning experts product managers and people leaders. Our Staff Engineers are leading experts in their domains helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
At Capital One we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
Staff Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies platforms and capability domains creating clear and concise communications code samples blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
About the Team:
Card Tech is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to join our team and fundamentally redefine the speed and quality of software development. We are a high-velocity mission-driven group obsessed with bridging the gap between Intent and Execution (IE). In this role you wont just manage; you will operate as a Player-Coach functioning both as a high-leverage developer who ships production-ready code in hours as well as mentoring a team to become elite AI-native builders. You will own the technical benchmark leveraging agentic development tools to its absolute limits through rigorous spec-driven design to solve complex problems with unprecedented urgency.
This leader must have the ability to attract top-tier talent and the technical whisperer skills to ensure AI-generated output is flawless secure and scalable. Success requires an innovative mind a proven track record of delivering next-generation products and a passion for AI-native execution. You are a master of technical specifications who can translate complex architectures into simple actionable reality. If you are a high-agency leader ready to define the 100x engineer era and make a massive visible impact on our company trajectory this is your team.
Key responsibilities:
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Handle several projects simultaneously balancing your time to maximize impact
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 9 years of experience designing distributed systems backend architecture and API platforms
At least 9 years of experience with public cloud technologies
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java Python Go JavaScript TypeScript Swift
10 years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable fault-tolerant highly-available services
10 years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL REST API gateways gRPC caching and streaming).
10 years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS Azure or GCP) containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and automated deployment
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
Chicago IL: $286200 - $326700 for Sr Distinguished EngineerCandidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.Capital One offers a comprehensive competitive and inclusive set of health financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status exempt or non-exempt status and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal state and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries including to the extent applicable Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco California Police Code Article 49 Sections 4901-4920; New York Citys Fair Chance Act; Philadelphias Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal state and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position and you require an accommodation please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1- or via email at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
