Staff Engineer - Global Payment Network (Cloud & AI)

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in McLean, VA to join the Global Payment Network Technology organization. You will define architecture for cloud-native, high‑volume systems, and mentor engineers across teams while partnering with ML experts, product managers and leaders to accelerate delivery.

You will own the technical vision, ensure design quality, and promote advanced tooling and best practices across the engineering community.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; 7+ years in general software and 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; 10+ years of professional coding experience across languages.

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 performance, scalability and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching and strengthening expertise.

Skills

Software engineering

Software architecture

Cloud technologies

Networking

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

CS-related BS/MS

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer in McLean, VA to join the Global Payment Network Technology organization. You will define architecture for cloud-native, high‑volume systems, and mentor engineers across teams while partnering with ML experts, product managers and leaders to accelerate delivery.

You will own the technical vision, ensure design quality, and promote advanced tooling and best practices across the engineering community.