Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech) at Capital_One — Chicago, IL

Distinguished Engineer (Card 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.

In this role, you will be responsible for architecting the target state application architecture and providing technical support to the development teams. A continuous focus will be placed on building and improving our platforms to guarantee best-in-class security, performance, maintainability, and usability. This team manages highly available and scalable critical services essential for customer-facing applications. We are currently executing a platform transformation, migrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stack.

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

What you’ll do

• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Credit Card Core systems
• Architect and build highly secure & scalable systems that enable server-driven product experiences across devices, with exceptional reliability and availability.
• Design high-throughput, low-latency services capable of handling millions of concurrent requests.
• Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks to enable rapid issue detection, debugging and resolution, across the entire product system stack.
• Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers and driving organization wide platform innovation.
• Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company

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
• At least 5 years of experience developing large scale distributed systems
• At least 3+ years of experience in Cloud computing (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 coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python or Go
• 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

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

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer