Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer, Global Payments Network
Capital One1 day ago
McLean, VA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$315k - $392k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect real-time, event-driven pipelines for authorization, transaction, settlement, and fraud-related events with required latency and exactly-once delivery guarantees.
- Define a canonical data model that unifies merchant hierarchies, participant identities, transaction semantics, and legacy formats from three payment networks.
- Design and build the schema registry, lineage, data contracts, catalog, metadata, and access-policy layer for downstream teams.
- Set architecture and engineering standards for streaming, storage, low-latency serving, cloud infrastructure, and data standardization.
- Serve as the deep technical authority for the data engineering function and advise teams building the payment network platform.
- Partner with Fraud/AML, Analytics, and Canonical Modeling leadership to unblock their roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization without owning a reporting chain.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field is required.
- At least 9 years of experience is required in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Preferred experience includes 12+ years in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, web technologies, distributed HPC and ML systems, cloud computing, and data architecture.
- Deep experience with event-driven, real-time streaming architectures at scale, such as Kafka, Flink, or equivalent, is preferred.
- Experience with distributed storage, catalogs, metadata and lineage systems, and data lakehouse architectures is preferred.
- Experience designing canonical or shared data models that unify disparate or legacy systems is preferred.
- Experience architecting highly available, low-latency distributed systems in regulated, high-stakes domains such as payments, fraud, or financial transaction processing is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Capital One
Capital One is a U.S. consumer and commercial bank that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and lending to small and large businesses. It earns revenue from interest income and interchange/fees across its card and banking products, and develops cloud-based digital services. Founded in 1994, Capital One is publicly traded on the NYSE (COF) and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.