Sr. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director IC) - Card Authorizations

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSr. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director IC) - Card Authorizations

As a Sr. 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.

Sr. 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 Card Tech Authorizations organization that builds and delivers on spend strategies which advance credit card usage across the payments ecosystem.

You will set and execute the vision and strategy of modern platforms directly interfacing with credit card networks, acquirers, and partners to deliver amazing, next-generation, credit card capabilities to our customers.

From deeply understanding the card payment ecosystem to supporting massive scale platforms that are highly resilient and performant, you will strategically lead with our engineering teams that create the future spend capabilities for our customers.

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

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

At least 5 years of experience designing and building distributed, transactional, low-latent, and resilient systems

Preferred Qualifications :

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

10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go

10+ 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

2+ years of experience working on credit card authorizations systems

2+ years of experience working with credit card payment networks

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site) : $321,500 - $366,900 for Sr Distinguished Engineer