Distinguished Engineer - Commercial Card

Distinguished Engineer - Commercial Card at Capital One summary:

The Distinguished Engineer - Commercial Card at Capital One leads technical strategy and innovation for commercial card products by collaborating across multiple engineering domains and mentoring internal talent. This senior role demands expertise in software engineering, cloud technologies, enterprise architecture, and hands-on leadership for scalable, high-performance systems. The position emphasizes fostering engineering excellence and delivering complex technical solutions aligned with business objectives in a banking and payments environment.

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 work with the Commercial Card team to help drive the vision and technical direction for our products, playing a crucial role in leading tech initiatives and delivering complex solutions, ranging from evaluating platform choices for building new products as well as embarking on technological transformation of existing products.

The role will also play a key role in collaborating with distinguished engineers across the Business Card & Payments group to define technical strategies that align to the business objectives. Mentoring engineers within the commercial card organization and elevating engineering excellence will be a key objective of this role. Hands-on experience is a big plus.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's 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

• Hands-on experience to lead teams on POCs and closer to the execution on critical technical problems

• Mentor engineers to elevate engineering excellence in the organization

• 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 4 years of experience with public cloud technologies (AWS,…