Distinguished Engineer, Global Payment Network — Cloud & AI

Capital One; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Houston invites industry-leading engineers to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will collaborate with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to build a low-latency, highly resilient payments backbone and continuously advance engineering excellence across the organization.

You will lead through technical contribution, share knowledge via blogs and code samples, and mentor colleagues while driving scalable solutions for domestic and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in General software
• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
• 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

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

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

Networking basics

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in CS or related field

Tools

Claude Code

Windsurf

AI agents

Job description

Capital One in Houston invites industry-leading engineers to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will collaborate with developers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to build a low-latency, highly resilient payments backbone and continuously advance engineering excellence across the organization.

You will lead through technical contribution, share knowledge via blogs and code samples, and mentor colleagues while driving scalable solutions for domestic and