Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director IC) - Partner Experience

Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Director IC) - Partner Experience

As a Staff 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 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 delivering 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 engineers 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 materials 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.

Team Description

In this role, you will join the Partner Experience Tech (PXT) organization, the digital front door where external partners across a global B2B ecosystem connect with Capital One’s payment network. Our domain directly powers the future of Partner Servicing and Testing & Certification. We support a diverse set of network partners—including merchants, acquirers, and card issuers—providing them with mission-critical digital platforms and self-service portals to seamlessly navigate onboarding, testing, certification, and ongoing servicing.

We are on an ambitious quest to modernize our front-end portal strategy, transforming complex multi-party workflows into intuitive, unified, and resilient digital experiences. As a Staff Full Stack Engineer, you will help set the technical direction and UI architecture for our next-generation partner portals and servicing platforms. You will lead the shift toward high-performance, modular web applications, driving self-service capabilities and automating testing and certification pipelines at scale.

If you are energized by modernizing distributed web platforms, raising the bar for front-end engineering excellence, and building the developer-friendly ecosystems that accelerate global network growth, this is the place to make your mark.

What You’ll Do

• 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
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

This role is designated as a hybrid position. You are expected to adhere to Capital One's hybrid policy regarding required on-site presence at your designated office location.

Basic

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in all of the following:
• Software engineering and solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Data architecture

Preferred

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 8+ years of experience in all of the following:
• Full-stack software engineering and solution architecture
• Cloud computing and serverless/containerized deployments (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Full lifecycle system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• 6+ years of professional experience with:
• Modern web technologies and single-page application (SPA) frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript, Next.js)
• Backend development and service orchestration using languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js
• Relational and NoSQL database management systems
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with:
• Enterprise front-end patterns, including micro-frontends, design systems, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture
• Client-side state management, modern build tooling, and automated test frameworks
• Responsive web architecture, web vitals optimization, accessibility standards (WCAG/ADA), and secure client-side communication
• Web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, REST, gRPC) and web security (OAuth2, OIDC, CSP, CORS)
• 2+ years of experience in:
• Mentoring senior engineers and actively coaching engineering teams
• Leading cross-domain architectural reviews and setting coding, accessibility, and UI standards
• Demonstrated experience in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges

Chicago, IL: $244,700 - $279,200 fo