Staff Engineer, Cloud-Native Digital Payments

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Digital Payments Technology organization in Chicago. You will lead by example, evangelize technical vision, and help accelerate modernization to the cloud while building new capabilities for secure, low-latency money movement.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and leaders to design robust systems, ensure performance, scalability, and operability, and mentor talent across Capital One Tech in a

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.

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

Networking

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 Staff Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Digital Payments Technology organization in Chicago. You will lead by example, evangelize technical vision, and help accelerate modernization to the cloud while building new capabilities for secure, low-latency money movement.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and leaders to design robust systems, ensure performance, scalability, and operability, and mentor talent across Capital One Tech in a