Staff Engineer: Global Payments Cloud Architect

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

Job summary

Capital One's Global Payments Network Technology team in McLean, VA seeks a Staff Engineer to help modernize our cloud-based payments platform. You will lead technical vision, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering highly available, scalable services.

You will work with ML and AI tooling, collaborate across product and operations, and influence across the organization to improve performance, security, and reliability.

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
• Coach and mentor within the tech community

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

AI tooling experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Capital One's Global Payments Network Technology team in McLean, VA seeks a Staff Engineer to help modernize our cloud-based payments platform. You will lead technical vision, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering highly available, scalable services.

You will work with ML and AI tooling, collaborate across product and operations, and influence across the organization to improve performance, security, and reliability.