Staff Engineer, Global Payments Network — Cloud-Native & AI

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical vision for the Global Payment Network in the cloud. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and ensure scalable, secure, low‑latency systems across rails.

This role emphasizes hands-on delivery, collaboration with product, ML, and platform teams, and the use of advanced AI tooling to accelerate modernization and new capabilities for digital payments.

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 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

Cloud technologies

AI tooling

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Education

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

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical vision for the Global Payment Network in the cloud. You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and ensure scalable, secure, low‑latency systems across rails.

This role emphasizes hands-on delivery, collaboration with product, ML, and platform teams, and the use of advanced AI tooling to accelerate modernization and new capabilities for digital payments.