Senior Distinguished Engineer; Remote-Eligible

Senior Distinguished Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

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.

The Senior Distinguished Engineer will operate end to end to enable Capital One credit cards on the next generation credit card processing system. You will play a key role in designing and implementing solutions and platforms that power our business from credit card issuance to settlements. You will help drive innovation and shape the future of credit card processing and unlock value for Capital One customers.

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.

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.

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

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

• A Technical Leader:
  You have a record of taking a strategic and systematic approach to challenging technical problems and seeing them to completion. Your technical expertise often influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence and help other engineers grow.

• Distributed systems expert. Building, scaling, and modernizing business critical applications across a wide range of domains. From legacy to modern system architectures, you have delivered massive business results and is able to adapt to changing technology and effectively evaluate tradeoffs

• Work with a vast range of other technical topics, including backend development, Dev Ops, Microservices, containers, mobile development, web development.

• Focused on Users:
  You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Capital One consumers or internal engineers before architecting a solution.

• 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

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 9 years of experience in General software Software engineering and solution architecture

• At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in coding with commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go,…