Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Message Delivery & Dispatch)

Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Message Delivery & Dispatch) 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. What You’ll Do: Architect at Scale: Own the end-to-end architecture for delivery across all our properties (site, emails, SMS, push notifications, messages, AdTech ecosystems, and inbound channels) enabled by AI. You will ensure a well-managed, highly resilient architecture capable of handling billions of messages a month with zero downtime. Governance & Compliance Stewardship: Serve as the primary technical authority on email governance and evolving regulatory standards, including UDAAP and state-specific regulations such as the FCCPA. Because dispatch is the last mile delivery before reaching customers, you will design and enforce safety protocols to protect the brand, LOBs, and customers, ensuring all communications adhere to enterprise compliance and risk frameworks. You will bring a cyber-security perspective to the delivery architecture. Drive Message Delivery Platform Convergence: Lead the technical strategy to modernize legacy messaging systems into a unified Enterprise Message Delivery platform. Drive the initiative to migrate off legacy systems, architect vendor-agnostic 'Built and Bought' solutions, and scale the orchestration layer to handle enterprise-scale traffic, AdTech pipeline integration, and B2B2C partner messaging (dealer-to-customer). Build Automations: Implement automations across various workflows to avoid expensive migrations and establish engineering standards. Vendor strategy: Help drive decision making around vendor strategy for build vs. buy. Cross-Functional Leadership & Mentorship: Act as the technical leader for engineering teams (Message Delivery, Orchestration, Integration) in the dispatch domain. Help Senior and Lead ICs and other developers grow by providing them with ample scope and guiding them through complex technical challenges in a highly regulated, high-availability environment. Stay current with industry trends and bring best practices and recommendations to drive innovation. Data Product Competency & Observability: Drive a data-first approach to platform health by treating delivery metrics as a first-class product. You will architect robust telemetry and analytics pipelines that enable real-time observability, predictive performance tuning, and data-driven optimization of delivery pathways, ensuring high-fidelity insights that directly improve operational efficiency and customer experience Basic Qualifications: At least 7 years of experience in software