Senior Cloud Payments Architect & Tech Visionary

Socket.dev; Harrisonburg (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the Global Payment Network’s Digital Payments Technology in a cloud-first environment. You will drive the technical vision, design scalable, secure payment platforms, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance money movement at scale.

You will collaborate with architects, software engineers, data scientists and product leaders to accelerate modernization, apply AI tooling, and uphold engineering excellence across product teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 7+ years of general software experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.

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 (performance, scalability, operability).
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Mentor and coach within the engineering and product community.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud technologies

Networking

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the Global Payment Network’s Digital Payments Technology in a cloud-first environment. You will drive the technical vision, design scalable, secure payment platforms, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance money movement at scale.

You will collaborate with architects, software engineers, data scientists and product leaders to accelerate modernization, apply AI tooling, and uphold engineering excellence across product teams