Director, Distinguished Engineer (Front End) - Card Digital Tech

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaDirector, Distinguished Engineer (Front End) - Card Digital Tech

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.

About the team : Capital One’s Card Digital team is responsible for delivering web and mobile experiences to our credit card customers, using a suite of modern technologies.

Exploring ways to harness the power of AI, and other emerging technologies, this team is at the forefront of delivering customized, curated capabilities for our end customers.

Working in a fast paced environment with highly passionate product and engineering teams, a successful candidate will provide :

Deep technical expertise and thought leadership, to helps accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

Vision, collaborating on some of Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers

Mentorship, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

A strong voice, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish it as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

If you are ready to provide technical 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 the Digital 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

Engage on several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

Support building software in a regulated, well managed environment

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 7 years of experience insoftware engineering or solution architecture

At least 7 years of experience in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, Go, Angular, JavaScript / TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin)

At least 5 years of experience building customer facing applications

At least 3 years of experience leading digital architecture strategy

At least 3 years of experience with AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred Qualifications

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

7+ years of experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

5+ years of experience with web and mobile technologies in a large scale production environment

5+ years of experience in architectural patterns such as REST vs GraphQL, Backend For Frontends, Event Driven Architecture, Server Driven UI

5+ years of experience working with Android or iOS

Familiarity with Asynchronous Programming and Declarative UI technologies (Compose, SwiftUI, Flutter, React)

Experience in security engineering for web / mobile, threat modeling

Experience in cloud networking (design, protocols, routing)

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) : $274,800 - $313,600 for Distinguished Engineer