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Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer, Global Payments Network

McLean, VA, USFull-time$315k–$359k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Visa sponsorship offered

Core

Architecting and delivering real-time and batch data infrastructure (ingestion, streaming, canonical data model, catalog) for a unified global payment network.

Role type

Senior Staff Individual Contributor (IC) Full-stack Engineer

Builds

Real-time event-driven data pipelines, canonical data models, and metadata layers for a unified payment network

Domain

Financial Services / Global Payments / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Software engineering and solution architecture, Enterprise architecture, Cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP), Data architecture, Real-time streaming architecture, Distributed storage and metadata systems, High-availability low-latency system design

Preferred skills

Master's in CS/SE, 12+ years experience, Web technologies (TypeScript/JS), Distributed HPC and ML systems, Event-driven architectures (Kafka/Flink), Data lakehouse architectures, Canonical data modeling, Regulated domain experience

Technologies

Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, AWS, Azure, GCP, TypeScript, JavaScript

Responsibilities

Architect real-time event-driven data pipelines for authorization and settlement; Define canonical data models unifying legacy schemes; Design catalog and metadata layers for data governance; Set technical standards for streaming and storage; Act as technical authority and mentor across the organization; Partner with Fraud/AML and Analytics leadership

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence