Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead (Remote-Eligible) at Capital_One — Anytown, IL

Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead (Remote-Eligible)

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.

Card Intelligent Decisions & Experiences (CIDX) in Card Tech+ is responsible for the decisioning technology that guides our customers through their entire credit journey - from marketing, to product offers, real-time transaction approvals, and more.

In this role, you will be the Technical Lead for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization, setting and delivering the technical agenda for our Discover Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams. You will make applicant feature delivery rapid and intelligent, transforming custom, segment-specific initiatives into highly modular, reusable enterprise capabilities. You will drive an agenda to ship exponentially more products and experiences by identifying common technical patterns across unique customer journeys and arming FDE squads with extensible frameworks, unified data schemas, and configurable systems that allow for self-service product delivery.

This is not a pure architecture role; you will work closely with FDE squads coding, delivering, and operating the critical services they own across diverse codebases. The ideal candidate will excel at both surveying broad business domains to craft a technical strategy that allows squads to move with maximum agility, and diving deep into the details to personally deliver the highest-leverage projects from that roadmap.

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
• Design, build, and maintain a resilient, high-performance ecosystem that supports aggressive portfolio growth while upholding strict standards of operational excellence.
• Maximize the efficiency, intelligence, and capability of core credit decisioning systems. Simplify and modernize backend architectures to significantly compress the feature delivery lifecycle.
• Engineer advanced, flexible frontend capabilities that allow the business to rapidly deploy new applicant user flows, custom segment experiences, and real-time product offers.
• Act as the technical catalyst that transforms raw business intents into scalable software solutions, ensuring engineering teams can pivot and deploy features with maximum agility.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Foster a culture of continuous modernization, guiding cross-functional teams to build modular, reusable codebases that eliminate technical silos across the Acquisitions domain.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
• 4+ years of experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high availability, high throughput environments
• Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy
• 7+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 7+ 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

Remote (Regardless of Location): $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Anytown, IL: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer