Distinguished Engineer, Back End; Remote Eligibe

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, AI/ML experts, data analysts, 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 our Capital Markets and Financial Planning Technology teams as well as the broader Finance Technology Distinguished Engineer community to drive architectural excellence, establish AI‑native engineering standards, and deliver the next generation of liquidity management, predictive analytics and financial planning infrastructure that powers Capital One's most consequential financial decisions.

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.

• 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
• Lead proof‑of‑concept development for emerging AI frameworks and architectural patterns
• Collaborate with other Finance Technology towers reviewing architectures and designs outside your immediate domain and contributing a cross‑cutting perspective that raises the bar org‑wide
• Champion AIOps practices — driving platform reliability through AI‑assisted anomaly detection, automated remediation, and predictive alerting across the portfolio

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in the following:
  • Software engineering and solution architecture
  • Enterprise architecture and design patterns
  • Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
  • Full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
  • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Data engineering

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in one or more of: software engineering and solution architecture, enterprise architecture and design patterns, distributed HPC and ML systems, ML development lifecycle, cloud computing, or data architecture
• 10+ years of hands‑on coding in commonly used languages Python, Java, Go, Scala, JavaScript/Type Script, or similar; you are a working engineer, not a former engineer
• 8+ years owning the full SDLC, conception through architecture,…