Capital One
Staff Full-stack Engineer - Global Payment Network
$245K–$307K
Riverwoods, IL +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Riverwoods, IL
McLean, VA
Chicago, IL
Plano, TX - Experience
- At least 7 years across the listed basic qualification areas. Preferred experience includes several stated thresholds, ranging from 2+ to 10+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field; a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Leads technical vision and hands-on engineering for high-volume, resilient payment-network systems, including modernization, platform strategy, and team development.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, design and implementation quality, and standards for payment-network systems.
- Modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms; guide platform strategy and API standards.
- Mentor engineers and lead cross-divisional technical initiatives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, cloud computing, and data architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Expertise in the strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
Pay
$244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary (Chicago, IL); $269,100 - $307,200 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary (Plano, TX); $244,700 - $279,200 USD base salary (Riverwoods, IL)
Tools
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Applies automation and AI-native engineering to improve real-time insights and payment capabilities; preferred expertise in agentic AI coding tools.
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