Distinguished Engineer - API Platform; GraphQL)(Remote-Eligible

Distinguished Engineer - API Platform (Graph

QL)(Remote-Eligible) at Capital One summary:

The Distinguished Engineer - API Platform (Graph

QL) at Capital One leads the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable API solutions within a cloud banking environment. They provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and drive innovation across multiple projects while ensuring high-quality and secure software development practices. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, AWS, Dev Ops, and Graph

QL technologies with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.

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.

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

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in General software

• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and Solution architecture

• 10+ years of professional experience coding in one of the following software engineering languages (Golang, Rust, JavaScript, Python or Java)

• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

• 5+ years of experience designing, building and operating large scale distributed systems

• 5+ years of experience with AWS

• 5+ years of experience with Dev Ops and AWS IaC

• 3+ years of experience with Graph
  
  QL technologies

• 3+ years of experience with Authentication and Authorization Technologies (implementing Graph
  
  QL security including fine grained authorizations, rate limiting , query complexity analysis)

• 3+ years of experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases

• Experience operating with a Site Reliability (SRE) mindset and culture

Capital One will consider sponsoring a…