Staff Engineer, Global Payments Network (Cloud-Native)

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

Job summary

Capital One is hiring a Staff Engineer for the Global Payments Network in Riverwoods, IL. You will lead technical vision, decompose complex payment systems, and drive high-performance, low-latency cloud-native solutions across financial rails.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and ML teams, and help accelerate modernization of our Digital Payments platform while adopting advanced AI tooling to improve development velocity and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 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 and operable solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead as an expert on non-functional system characteristics like performance and scalability.
• Mentor and coach engineers across teams.

Skills

General software

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud technologies

AI tooling experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One is hiring a Staff Engineer for the Global Payments Network in Riverwoods, IL. You will lead technical vision, decompose complex payment systems, and drive high-performance, low-latency cloud-native solutions across financial rails.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and ML teams, and help accelerate modernization of our Digital Payments platform while adopting advanced AI tooling to improve development velocity and reliability.