Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech)
As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.
At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate, and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent, and actively recruiting to keep building our community.
Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms, and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts, and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.
In this role, you will be responsible for architecting the target state application architecture and providing technical support to the development teams. A continuous focus will be placed on building and improving our platforms to guarantee best-in-class security, performance, maintainability, and usability. This team manages highly available and scalable critical services essential for customer-facing applications. We are currently executing a platform transformation, migrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stack.
If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital Ones engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.
Key Responsibilities:
• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain • Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions • Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation • Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, and operability • Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community • Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact • Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
What You'll Do:
• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Credit Card Core systems • Architect and build highly secure and scalable systems that enable server-driven product experiences across devices, with exceptional reliability and availability • Design high-throughput, low-latency services capable of handling millions of concurrent requests • Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks to enable rapid issue detection, debugging, and resolution, across the entire product system stack • Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers, and driving organization-wide platform innovation • Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree • At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture • At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns • At least 5 years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems • At least 3+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field • 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, or Go • 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
Capital One's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.
Salary Information:
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
• Chicago, IL: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer • McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer • Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer • Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.
Performance-Based Incentive Compensation:
This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
Benefits:
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
Application Process:
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies, please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.