Director, Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech

Director, Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech) at Capital One summary:

The Director, Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leads technical innovation and engineering excellence focused on card payment customer experiences across mobile and web platforms. They guide complex system design, mentor engineers, and promote knowledge sharing within the organization while driving modernization and scalability. This role requires deep expertise in software engineering, cloud technologies, and customer experience orchestration in the fintech domain.

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.

This role focuses on the overall Customer Experience for Card Payments at Capital One. As a Distinguished Engineer in this role, you will guide the innovation and modernization of our front-end payment customer experiences across iOS, Android Mobile, and web platforms, ensure seamless integration, and develop high-volume, reliable alerting. As part of our maturation as an enterprise platform, you will also focus on orchestration to help drive customer experience, specifically around eligibility, validation, and payments options, in order to extend our platform approach into the customer experience sphere.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in Software Engineering and solutions architecture

• At least 3 years of web or mobile experience working with Web Technologies and designing and building complex orchestration logic

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

• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/Type Script, Swift, etc.

• 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation,…