Distinguished Engineer - Card Technology

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
• Explore new cloud technologies and identify applications to leverage their potential
• Develop patterns for cloud to enable emerging business initiatives
• Collaborate with tech leaders to drive tech strategy
• Evangelize cloud strategy, solutions and best practices across the enterprise
• Lead by example by spending a portion of time writing code and directly contributing to code bases in conjunction with our engineers
• Leverage modern AI coding tools such as Windsurf and Claude Code to delivery quality solution

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience with solution architecture or software engineering
• At least 5 years of experience with architectural patterns (SOA)
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a Master's Degree in Software Engineering
• 10+ years of experience of working with business leaders on the implications of architectural decisions
• 5+ years building cloud native architectures, architecting enterprise applications on public cloud platforms and cloud ecosystems (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• 5+ years of experience building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
• Experience using generative AI coding tools to increase developer productivity
• Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
• McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer
• New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100 for Distinguished Engineer
• Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.
• This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
• Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
• This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• No agencies please. Capital One is an equal oppo

Benefits

Additional Information

Distinguished Engineer - Card Technology 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. In this role we are looking for a Distinguished Engineer who will lead our Fraud and Disputes ecosystem, defenses and user experiences. You will partner with engineers, product and business stakeholders across the Card Fraud domain and build scalable & resilient solutions that leverage modern tech and design patterns. As part of this role, you will play a key role in standardizing capabilities to enable intelligent decision making that support us to respond to emerging threats swiftly. You would help define the vision for integrated defenses powered by common capabilities. You will work on designing cloud native solutions and will have the opportunity to work on emerging technologies such as: AWS, Claude, Windsurf, Java, Python, GO, REST, databases and pipelines. 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.

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