Senior Cloud Payments Architect & Tech Leader

Capital One; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Chicago, IL is seeking a Distinguished Engineer for GPN Digital Payments Technology. You will help design, build, and operate a high-performance, cloud-native payments backbone that handles money movement across rails and devices.

As a senior hands-on engineer, you will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and evangelize best practices for reliability, security, and scalability. This role emphasizes thought leadership and collaboration across product, ML, and platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• At least 7 years of experience in general software.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• 10+ years coding in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Swift.
• 8+ years full lifecycle of system development.
• 3+ years cloud technologies and networking experience.
• Experience using interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure high quality technical design and implementation.
• Lead on non-functional characteristics like performance, scalability, operability.
• Mentor and coach within the tech community.
• Balance multiple projects to maximize impact.
• Act as a trusted advisor across technologies and platforms.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

AI tooling

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Public cloud platforms

Networking basics

Job description

Capital One in Chicago, IL is seeking a Distinguished Engineer for GPN Digital Payments Technology. You will help design, build, and operate a high-performance, cloud-native payments backbone that handles money movement across rails and devices.

As a senior hands-on engineer, you will mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and evangelize best practices for reliability, security, and scalability. This role emphasizes thought leadership and collaboration across product, ML, and platform