Capital One tech stack

Capital One builds mostly with Python, SQL, Scala, JavaScript. Its stack also includes AWS, GCP, PyTorch, Snowflake. AWS is named in 1,038 of the 1,432 job postings Capital One published in the last 12 months (72%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Capital One, updated Sep 27, 2026.

Source: Alion Coverage: the company's job postings of the last 12 months Sep 27, 2026
Technologies in use
336
Postings analysed
1,432
Open now
810
Modernity
79 /100
New in 6 months
8

What programming languages does Capital One use?

Python is named in 65% of job postings at Capital One, followed by SQL (39%), Scala (35%), JavaScript (31%).

Python 930 65% required in 83% · 478 open now · since Aug 2025
SQL 555 39% required in 63% · 253 open now · since Aug 2025
Scala 507 35% required in 80% · 295 open now · since Aug 2025
JavaScript 449 31% required in 71% · 207 open now · since Jan 2026
TypeScript 382 27% required in 82% · 188 open now · since Jan 2026
Java 378 26% required in 93% · 157 open now · since Jan 2026
Go 246 17% required in 84% · 119 open now · since Jan 2026
C# 225 16% optional · 149 open now · since Jan 2026
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Node JS185
C++143
Rust103
Kotlin38
Swift30
Perl26
Ruby25
Bash12
Assembly11
Apex10
PowerShell6
Groovy5
PHP3
Visual Basic3
COBOL2
JCL2
Clojure2
Haskell2
LISP2
Objective-C2
Erlang1

What frameworks and libraries does Capital One use?

PyTorch is named in 16% of job postings at Capital One, followed by PyTorch C++ (9%), NeMo Guardrails (5%), Hadoop (5%).

PyTorch 226 16% required in 85% · 119 open now · since Aug 2025
PyTorch C++ 132 9% required in 100% · 69 open now · since Jan 2026
NeMo Guardrails 77 5% required in 100% · 12 open now · since Jan 2026
Hadoop 65 5% required in 11% · 11 open now · since Feb 2026
Scikit-learn 59 4% required in 41% · 32 open now · since Apr 2026
TensorFlow 58 4% required in 52% · 34 open now · since Apr 2026
React.js 54 4% required in 91% · 24 open now · since Apr 2026
CUDA 39 3% required in 92% · 38 open now · since Sep 2026
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Dask39
Angular37
LangChain30
Dagster30
Transformers28
Ray26
NumPy23
Pandas23
TensorFlow C++21
Vue.js15
MLX ML14
Spring Boot13
Espresso12
JUnit11
Jetpack Compose10
LangGraph10
SwiftUI9
DGL8
NVIDIA NeMo7
LlamaIndex7
Flink7
OpenTelemetry7
XGBoost6
LiteRT6
AutoGen5
CrewAI4
Jest4
Playwright4
Dagger3
RxJava3
Svelte3
Cypress3

And 28 more, each named in fewer postings.

What databases does Capital One use?

Snowflake is named in 9% of job postings at Capital One, followed by Cassandra (7%), Amazon Redshift (6%), MySQL (5%).

Snowflake 132 9% required in 86% · 65 open now · since Feb 2026
Cassandra 98 7% required in 4% · 40 open now · since Feb 2026
Amazon Redshift 90 6% required in 60% · 38 open now · since Feb 2026
MySQL 65 5% required in 8% · 12 open now · since Feb 2026
MongoDB 59 4% optional · 12 open now · since Feb 2026
DynamoDB 54 4% required in 30% · 37 open now · since Jun 2026
PostgreSQL 14 1% required in 50% · 4 open now · since Jul 2026
ElasticSearch 8 1% required in 13% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
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Amazon Aurora3
Redis3
ClickHouse2
Db22
GraphDB2
Presto2
Trino2
OpenSearch2
Pinecone2
BigQuery1
Google BigQuery1
Milvus1
Oracle1
Qdrant1
Teradata1
Weaviate1

What cloud and platforms does Capital One use?

AWS is named in 72% of job postings at Capital One, followed by GCP (53%), Azure (53%), Kubernetes (28%).

AWS 1038 72% required in 79% · 532 open now · since Aug 2025
GCP 765 53% required in 68% · 342 open now · since Jan 2026
Azure 763 53% required in 67% · 342 open now · since Jan 2026
Kubernetes 398 28% required in 95% · 180 open now · since Dec 2025
Spark 281 20% required in 59% · 160 open now · since Dec 2025
Hugging Face 165 12% required in 99% · 83 open now · since Aug 2025
GitHub 131 9% required in 8% · 106 open now · since Jun 2026
Bitbucket 96 7% optional · 91 open now · since Sep 2026
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Linux83
Apache Kafka80
Unix79
Databricks60
Splunk57
Tableau53
Figma42
CUDA Toolkit39
AWS Lambda26
H2O.ai25
Datadog18
Amazon S316
Windows14
AWS Step Functions14
AWS Fargate13
Amazon CloudWatch11
Amazon ECS10
MuleSoft10
Crowdstrike8
Qualys Cloud Platform7
New Relic6
Kubeflow6
Amazon Kinesis5
SIEM5
SAP BusinessObjects5
OpenShift4
Amazon EC24
.NET4
OpenAI4
Amazon SageMaker4
Amazon EKS3
AWS Bedrock3

And 24 more, each named in fewer postings.

What developer tools does Capital One use?

Docker is named in 26% of job postings at Capital One, followed by Git (8%), Claude Code (5%), Copilot (4%).

Docker 378 26% required in 97% · 159 open now · since Apr 2026
Git 109 8% required in 1% · 102 open now · since Jul 2026
Claude Code 70 5% required in 40% · 38 open now · since Jun 2026
Copilot 64 4% required in 11% · 32 open now · since Jun 2026
Jenkins 47 3% required in 38% · 24 open now · since Apr 2026
Terraform 26 2% required in 65% · 12 open now · since Jun 2026
Microsoft Excel 26 2% required in 31% · 22 open now · since May 2026
GraphQL 18 1% required in 44% · 11 open now · since Aug 2026
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Ansible17
Windsurf17
Maven15
Informatica13
TPU12
pySpark12
Cursor11
gRPC11
Rest API10
Chef8
CloudFormation8
Model Context Protocol7
AWS Glue7
Apache HTTP Server7
Swift Testing6
Adobe Photoshop5
dbt5
HashiCorp Vault3
OpenAI Codex3
Alteryx3
Crossplane3
Pulumi3
Adobe After Effects2
OpenTofu2
CICS2
Gradle2
Prometheus2
A2A2
Endevor2
Semantic Kernel2
Adobe XD1
ESLint1

And 20 more, each named in fewer postings.

What AI and ML technologies does Capital One use?

LLM is named in 14% of job postings at Capital One, followed by Claude (5%), Gemini (3%), VLM (1%).

LLM 205 14% required in 64% · 89 open now · since Jan 2026
Claude 73 5% required in 36% · 37 open now · since Jun 2026
Gemini 49 3% required in 22% · 34 open now · since Jun 2026
VLM 8 1% required in 100% · 4 open now · since Jun 2026
Core ML 6 <1% optional · 6 open now · since Sep 2026
ChatGPT 4 <1% required in 50% · 1 open now · since Aug 2026
BERT 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
Llama 1 <1% optional · 1 open now · since Jul 2026
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LoRA1
Mistral1
PEFT1
QLoRA1

Which engineering practices does Capital One ask for?

Machine Learning is named in 40% of job postings at Capital One, followed by CI/CD (15%), AI Agents (15%), LLM Guardrails (10%).

Machine Learning 578 40% required in 96% · 315 open now · since Aug 2025
CI/CD 219 15% required in 48% · 163 open now · since Apr 2026
AI Agents 209 15% required in 78% · 131 open now · since Jan 2026
LLM Guardrails 137 10% required in 97% · 59 open now · since Jan 2026
Time Series Forecasting 74 5% required in 84% · 55 open now · since Dec 2025
Agentic Workflows 58 4% required in 24% · 49 open now · since May 2026
Explainable AI 53 4% required in 100% · 28 open now · since Apr 2026
NLP 52 4% required in 33% · 35 open now · since Aug 2025
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Multi-Agent Systems47
Fine-tuning47
Self-Supervised Learning41
RLHF41
RAG40
Reinforcement Learning36
Pre-training35
SFT30
Transfer Learning30
Quantization27
Edge AI23
Human-in-the-Loop22
HPC22
Platform Engineering20
Sentiment Analysis18
Prompt Engineering18
Tokenization16
Recommender Systems15
Computer Vision14
Incident Management13
SRE13
ETL/ELT13
IAM12
Chaos Engineering12
Multimodal AI11
Wi-Fi9
BGP9
Anomaly Detection8
SLI/SLO/SLA8
A/B Testing6
DNS6
State Management6

And 37 more, each named in fewer postings.

What other technologies does Capital One use?

Kotlin Coroutines is named in <1% of job postings at Capital One, followed by VSAM (<1%).

Kotlin Coroutines 3 <1% required in 100% · 3 open now · since Aug 2026
VSAM 2 <1% required in 50% · since Sep 2026

What does each Capital One team work with?

The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.

Backend

416 postings
AWS390
Azure368
GCP368
Python334
Docker306
Kubernetes305

AI/ML

211 postings
AWS177
PyTorch172
Python170
Scala166
Java164
Hugging Face148

Data Science

164 postings
Python152
AWS124
Snowflake93
Java88
Scala87
Spark87

Product

104 postings
Figma5
Claude3
Claude Code3
LLM3
MLX ML2

Leadership

72 postings
AWS29
Java13
Node JS11
React.js11
Maven10
Perl10

Finance

67 postings
SQL4
Gemini3
Microsoft Excel3

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How is the Capital One stack changing?

Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.

First appeared
Context EngineeringSep 2026
DHCPSep 2026
CrossplaneSep 2026
PulumiSep 2026
Core MLSep 2026
LiteRTSep 2026
State ManagementSep 2026
Swift TestingSep 2026
Rising
Node JS5% → 14%
GitHub1% → 10%
Git0% → 8%
Rust0% → 8%
Bitbucket0% → 7%
Claude2% → 6%
Multi-Agent Systems1% → 4%
Jenkins1% → 4%
Falling
Linux16% → 5%
Unix16% → 5%
Spark29% → 19%
NeMo Guardrails12% → 4%
MongoDB11% → 3%
Hugging Face17% → 10%
Apache Kafka12% → 5%
Hadoop11% → 4%

How modern is the Capital One stack?

Cutting-edge AI adopter 79/100

Capital One scores 79 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 12; legacy ones: 1.

How common is the Capital One stack in its industry?

Share of the 342 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.

AWS45%
Python70%
GCP34%
Azure38%
SQL76%
Scala14%
JavaScript49%
Kubernetes49%
TypeScript38%
Java48%

What sets Capital One apart

PyTorch C++3%
NeMo Guardrails1%
MongoDB4%
CUDA3%
CUDA Toolkit4%
Dask2%
H2O.ai1%
TensorFlow C++3%

Questions about the Capital One tech stack

What programming languages does Capital One use?

The languages named in Capital One job postings are Python (65%), SQL (39%), Scala (35%), JavaScript (31%), TypeScript (27%), as a share of the 1,432 postings of the last 12 months.

Does Capital One use PyTorch?

Yes. PyTorch is named in 226 of 1,432 job postings (16%) and required in 192 of them.

What cloud and platforms does Capital One use?

The cloud and platforms named in Capital One job postings are AWS (1038), GCP (765), Azure (763) (postings in brackets).

What skills do you need for a Backend job at Capital One?

Backend postings at Capital One most often require AWS (390), Azure (368), GCP (368), Python (334), out of 416 postings in the last 12 months.

Is the Capital One tech stack changing?

Yes. Context Engineering, DHCP, Crossplane, Pulumi first appeared in Capital One job postings in the last six months.

How modern is the Capital One tech stack?

Capital One scores 79 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 12; legacy ones: 1.

How does Alion know the Capital One tech stack?

Alion reads every job posting Capital One publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 1,432 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Sep 27, 2026.

Method and citation

Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count

Alion, "Capital One tech stack: 336 technologies from 1,432 job postings", as of Sep 27, 2026. https://alion.io/company/capitalone/technologies

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