Distinguished Engineer (Director IC) - Card Decisioning

$256,200 - $292,400/Yr

Capital One - McLean, VA

Full-time - Senior

McLean, VA

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About the position

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts focused on defining the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves driving innovation, optimizing business outcomes, and providing technical leadership within the Card Decisioning team, which is responsible for real-time decision-making solutions across various banking products. You will mentor talent, promote engineering excellence, and serve as a trusted advisor on key technologies and platforms.

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, observability 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
• Apply the right level of judgement on delegation of work to lead individual contributors and thereby help to mentor and coach the next generation of distinguished engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 7 years of experience as hands-on full stack or backend technologist
• At least 5 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go etc.
• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, solution architecture or data architecture, site reliability engineering
• At least 3 years of experience in cloud native technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Nice-to-haves

• 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
• 8+ 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Financial benefits including performance-based incentives
• Inclusive workplace culture
• Opportunities for professional development