Distinguished Engineer, Global Payment Network

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VADallas, TXRichmond, VARiverwoods, IL
Salary: $244,700–$279,200 / yr
Posted: 30 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $262k

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Distinguished Engineer, Global Payment Network

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As a Distinguished Engineer - Global Payment Network, you will join a team of technical experts to define the future of payments in the cloud. You will work with developers, machine learning experts, and product managers to solve complex problems by designing practical, reusable solutions while driving engineering excellence. Your daily responsibilities include articulating a bold technical vision, decomposing complex problems into high-performance systems, and leveraging agentic AI to modernize infrastructure. You will serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional characteristics like scalability and reliability while mentoring the broader community. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, public cloud technologies, and programming in languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript. This position focuses on building mission-critical, high-volume, low-latency infrastructure for domestic and international money movement, including transaction processing and fraud mitigation.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Java Python Go JavaScript TypeScript Swift AI Tools Agentic AI PCI-DSS Scalability Reliability Infrastructure

What you'll do

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain across engineering teams and executive leadership.
Decompose complex problems into practical, high-performance, and reliable operational solutions.
Leverage agentic AI to accelerate the delivery of modernized systems for the payment network.
Drive quality in technical design while proactively identifying and removing technical debt.
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics like performance, reliability, and scalability.
Mentor and coach the engineering community to strengthen their technical expertise and skills.
Provide hands-on technical contributions including code, blog posts, and root cause analyses.

What we're looking for

At least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
At least 5 years of experience designing distributed systems.
At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
10+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Design (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript (preferred).
Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards such as PCI-DSS (preferred).

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