Staff Full-Stack Engineer: Global Payments Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer for the Global Payment Network, joining a team of experts to define cloud-based banking solutions. You will lead technical initiatives, architect scalable systems, and collaborate with product managers and ML specialists to deliver reliable money movement infrastructure.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and set standards for performance and operability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and enterprise patterns.

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.
• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers.
• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements.

Skills

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff Full-stack Engineer for the Global Payment Network, joining a team of experts to define cloud-based banking solutions. You will lead technical initiatives, architect scalable systems, and collaborate with product managers and ML specialists to deliver reliable money movement infrastructure.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive modernization from monoliths to microservices, and set standards for performance and operability.