Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Global Payments (Remote)

Capital One; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer for the Global Payment Network who will help design, build, and operate high‑volume, low‑latency systems across cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural standards, and lead cross‑functional initiatives while delivering scalable, secure payment solutions.

The role emphasizes technical depth, collaboration with architecture leaders, and a focus on modernization from monoliths to microservices, with remote‑eligible

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture; enterprise architecture and design patterns; Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud); Data architecture

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
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands‑on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross‑divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer for the Global Payment Network who will help design, build, and operate high‑volume, low‑latency systems across cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural standards, and lead cross‑functional initiatives while delivering scalable, secure payment solutions.

The role emphasizes technical depth, collaboration with architecture leaders, and a focus on modernization from monoliths to microservices, with remote‑eligible