Director, Distinguished Engineer (Back End) - Card Technology

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaDirector, Distinguished Engineer (Back End) - 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.

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 Decisioning team is responsible to enable our business to manage risk and drive business value across the customer lifecycle by providing real-time, accurate , secure and AI powered decision-making solutions for customer transactions, fraud detection, alerts, credit inquiries and applications across card, lending and banking products.

In this role, you will work on our Decisioning Platform to provide hands on deep technical expertise . You will act as a bridge between developers and executive management .

You will work with other Distinguished Engineers to detail out high level designs to help Software engineers with clarity to develop and engineer the products as envisioned .

You will be responsible to help the teams with setting up the best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience .

Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to our engineer, product, and leadership groups.

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

Involved with products software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

At least 10 years of experience as hands on full stack technologist

At least 7 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript / TypeScript, Swift, etc.

At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, solution architecture or data architecture

At least 3 years of experience in cloud native technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications :

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

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

10+ years of experience in designing large scale and resilient applications

3+ years of experience with solutioning a large scale platform

Familiarity with Security engineering and architecture, cloud and software-defined networking, site reliability engineering

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