Sr Distinguished Engineer

Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One

As a Sr. 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

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.

The Team

Business Cards & Payments' mission is to help businesses do more business - and the advent of Agentic AI offers massive new opportunities for BC&P to do so through hyper personalized user acquisition, underwriting, and retention of business card customers. We're hiring a Sr. Distinguished Engineer who is ready to carve BC&P's path towards an agentic future. Your mission will be to move BC&P beyond manual and reactive user acquisition and underwriting tools - helping us automate workflows end-to-end, empower our sales and underwriting teams, and unlock fully autonomous agents that reason about customers in the wild.

You'll make direct contributions in this role: both defining our long-term technical strategy and hands-on prototyping, launch, and scaling of agentic systems. Example areas you'll take on include:

• Real-time, hyper personalized marketing systems that accurately and explainably prospect and engage new business customers
• Assistive technologies that arm our field and underwriting agents with superhuman knowledge and context to grow deeper relationships and close more sales
• Autonomous sales agents (AISDRs) that self-improve via RLAIF, and that 10x the efficiency of our sales and underwriting teams

About the Role

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, you will be a technical expert defining the future of our architecture, collaborating across C1 to drive innovation and deliver the systems that produce step-function growth for our business. You will lead through direct technical contribution: prototyping new features and systems, acting as a trusted advisor for key technologies, shaping our future architecture and evaluating what systems to build vs buy, and sharing knowledge internally and externally. Additionally, you will promote engineering excellence, foster an inclusive environment, and deeply mentor the next generation of technical talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype and assess new technologies that enable hyper personalized marketing, field sales, and underwriting systems through agentic AIP
• Partner with (and influence) our enterprise and card tech organizations to help Capital One develop the best agentic marketing and sales systems on the planet
• Establish and evangelize technical charters that will help the org more quickly adopt AI technologies
• Bridge the gap between our current systems and the future, ensuring that existing systems remain healthy and continue to serve the business
• Regularly clear roadblocks for developers across the org - with exceptional judgment for when to apply technical, process, or risk-acceptance solutions
• 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
• 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
• Provide architectural guidance and designs for large-scale cross-domain programs
• Working with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary
• 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
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
• At least 3 years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 2+ years of experience working on applied and agentic AI systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate "Agentic AI" concepts into business value
• 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• 10+ years of experience coding in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support

Capital One 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.

How to Apply

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. 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, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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