Distinguished Engineer

Capital One • McLean, VA

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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 Loyalty Division and contribute to the engineering culture across Card Tech+ and all Capital One. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering including system design and regular code contributions
• At least 7 years of experience using generative AI coding tools to increase developer leverage
• At least 7 years of experience in Back End technologies (Go, Java, Python, Database Design and query expertise, etc)
• At least 7 years of experience in Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
• At least 7 years of experience creating and enforcing standards to ensure standardization and simplification of the overall platform
• At least 7 years of experience leveraging modern cloud computing platforms effectively and efficiently (e.g. AWS)

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience using generative AI coding tools to increase developer leverage
• 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
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• 8+ years of experience with Networking (BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

Responsibilities

• Involved in architecting software and systems for all rewards redemption capabilities
• Responsible for the quality and engineering excellence across systems that process hundreds of thousands of orders per day
• Lead by example by spending a significant 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 provide maximum leverage and quality with minimal manual effort
• Work closely with business partners on scoping, defining, and building features for our customers, including new product launches
• 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
• Ability to influence Sr Partners to allocate resources to the most important technical initiative

Benefits

• 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 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level