Staff Engineer, Cloud-Native Digital Payments

Capital One; Little Rock Township, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Global Payment Network Digital Payments Technology org. You will help modernize our cloud-native platform and develop new capabilities spanning secure money movement across domestic and international rails.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration to deliver resilient, low-latency systems. You will work with senior engineers, product managers, and AI tooling to accelerate development while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of experience in General software
• 7+ years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
• 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)
• 3+ years of experience with 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

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

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Global Payment Network Digital Payments Technology org. You will help modernize our cloud-native platform and develop new capabilities spanning secure money movement across domestic and international rails.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration to deliver resilient, low-latency systems. You will work with senior engineers, product managers, and AI tooling to accelerate development while maintaining