Distinguished Engineer - Global Payment Network

Discover Financial
Dallas, Richmond
Full timeUSD 269,100 - 307,200 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Thought leadership","Evangelism","Mentoring","Root cause analysis","Communication"]

Lead hands-on engineering for the Global Payment Network, shaping a technical vision for massive-scale, mission-critical payment systems. Decompose complex problems into high-performance, reliable, and resilient distributed solutions, leveraging agentic AI to accelerate modernization. Serve as a trusted expert across performance, scalability, operability, and technical debt reduction, while mentoring engineers and communicating designs through code, documentation, and root-cause analysis.

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Distinguished Engineer - Global Payment Network

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Job Summary

Lead hands-on engineering for the Global Payment Network, shaping a technical vision for massive-scale, mission-critical payment systems. Decompose complex problems into high-performance, reliable, and resilient distributed solutions, leveraging agentic AI to accelerate modernization. Serve as a trusted expert across performance, scalability, operability, and technical debt reduction, while mentoring engineers and communicating designs through code, documentation, and root-cause analysis.
Location: Dallas, Richmond
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Articulate and evangelize a technical vision across engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership.
  • •Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions delivering high performance and reliability.
  • •Leverage agentic AI to accelerate delivery of modernized systems for the payment network.
  • •Drive quality of technical design and implementation, removing technical debt and friction in customer experiences.
  • •Mentor and role-model for the technical community through coaching, communications, and root-cause analysis.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 269,100 - 307,200 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree.
  • •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.
  • •Demonstrated experience designing high-performance, resilient systems and participating in full lifecycle development (conception through production operations).
Experience:7+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Thought leadershipEvangelismMentoringRoot cause analysisCommunication
Tech Stack:JavaPythonGoJavaScript/TypeScriptSwiftPublic cloudDistributed systemsAgentic AIMachine learningPCI-DSS

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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