Distinguished Engineer , Bank Tech (Remote- Eligible)

Capital One•McLean, NY

9d•Remote

About The Position

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. In this role, you will work with our Platform Engineering organization to provide AI-enabled tools for pipeline optimization and deterministic transformation capabilities that dramatically improve developer workflow, quality, and reliability. 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. About the Team: The Capital One Acquisitions Technology organization owns the customer journey through customer account opening, decisioning, and onboarding for our Retail and Small Business banks. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy for a large group of engineers and will be the lead architect overseeing a critical part of the company’s continued growth. You’ll help move us toward a more dynamically-driven application flow, championing server-driven UI and backend-for-frontend (BFF) patterns to ensure we can pivot at the speed of the market. You’ll ensure we’re building resilient, performant, and maintainable applications so we can deliver what our customers expect from us. And you’ll guide our continued integration of AI into our entire software development lifecycle.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
At least 7 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms
At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
10+ years of hands-on experience developing and architecting solutions on AWS.
Relevant professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or Snowflake/Databricks certifications (e.g., Certified SnowPro Advanced Architect).
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
Experience navigating and modernizing large-scale, non-greenfield environments with multiple languages and frameworks.
Deep understanding of BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) and Server-Driven UI architectures at scale.
Deep practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, chaos engineering, and advanced Observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Tracing).
Proven track record of successfully merging or migrating disparate tech stacks following an acquisition or organizational shift.
Experience in implementing Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

Drive the transition to a dynamically-driven architecture, utilizing SDUI and BFF patterns to decouple our front-end experiences from backend complexity.
Act as the primary technical arbiter for our journey from line of business-specific tech stacks to determine where uniqueness provides value and where it creates technical debt.
Lead the charge in identifying and implementing AI-driven efficiencies across our software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery and improve code resilience.
Guide the technical execution of a diverse project portfolio, collaborating with engineers specializing in everything ranging from distributed microservices to web and mobile applications to fraud and decisioning models.
Work cross-functionally with product and program management disciplines, and stakeholder and partners across Capital One to help optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions
Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and leading system design and code review sessions.
Help elevate the Capital One Distinguished Engineering community and establish yourself as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities.
Lead the way in creating next-generation talent, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster the Capital One tech talent pool.
Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and inner source solutions where possible
Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner
Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent