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Distinguished Engineer - GPN Digital Payments Technology

Chicago, IL, US💼 Full-time💰 $244,700–$244,700🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define the future of banking in the cloud by designing, building, and operating mission-critical, high-volume, low-latency distributed systems for global digital payments and tokenization.

Role type

Distinguished Engineer (Strategy & Hands-on IC)

Builds

Cloud-native digital payments infrastructure, tokenization platforms, and ultra-low-latency backbones for global commerce.

Domain

Fintech / Digital Payments / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Software engineering and solution architecture, system design, performance optimization, scalability, cloud technologies, networking (BGP, SD-WAN, Data Center), interactive AI tooling

Preferred skills

Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, full lifecycle system development

Technologies

Cloud-native platforms, AI coding agents (Claude Code, Windsurf), BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize bold technical vision, decompose complex problems into operational solutions, ensure quality of technical design and implementation, serve as authoritative expert on non-functional characteristics, mentor internal talent, create reusable solutions and share knowledge via code samples and blogs

Seniority

Distinguished, strategic thought leadership with hands-on technical contribution

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