Staff Software Engineer - Risk Tech
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will collaborate with developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders. Staff Software Engineers are recognized experts in their domains, devising practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, balancing business outcomes with strong technology solutions.
You will promote engineering excellence and foster an inclusive environment where diverse ideas are championed. This role involves mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to grow Capital One Tech’s community. Staff Software Engineers lead through technical contribution, advising on key technologies and platforms, and creating clear communications, code samples, and blog posts to share knowledge internally and externally. While you will specialize in a subject area, your input and impact will be sought across the organization.
This role is part of the Risk Technology organization, where empowered teams produce outstanding products to transform risk management with technology. You will define modern technologies that solve problems stakeholders have not yet imagined, acting as both strategist and executor.
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 the community
- Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact
- Act as a role model and mentor, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise of engineering and product teams
- Ensure code is of the highest quality and standard while actively contributing to and reviewing critical repositories
- Develop full stack applications with a product engineering mindset, spanning frontend and backend ecosystems that balance simplicity with flexibility
- Serve as technical authority on non-functional architecture, ensuring extreme resiliency and enterprise-grade readiness
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in:
- General software
- Software engineering and solution architecture
- Enterprise architecture and design patterns
- Software specializations including web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
- Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's 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, etc.
- 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
- 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)
- Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion
Pay
Salaries for this role vary by location. The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries are listed below at the time of this posting. Actual salary offered will be reflected in the candidate’s offer letter.
- Cambridge, MA: $269,100 – $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer
- McLean, VA: $269,100 – $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer
- Richmond, VA: $244,700 – $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer
- Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location
This role is eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.