Staff Engineer — Cloud Payments & AI Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead as a trusted technical advisor across platforms and capability domains, shaping architectural decisions and accelerating modernization of the Digital Payments platform.

Collaborate with engineers, ML experts, product managers and leaders to deliver scalable, secure, low-latency systems and to drive innovative AI-powered tooling, including Claude Code and Windsurf.

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, operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance and scalability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor and coach engineers and the product community.

Skills

General software

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to help define the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead as a trusted technical advisor across platforms and capability domains, shaping architectural decisions and accelerating modernization of the Digital Payments platform.

Collaborate with engineers, ML experts, product managers and leaders to deliver scalable, secure, low-latency systems and to drive innovative AI-powered tooling, including Claude Code and Windsurf.