Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech)

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.

In this role, you will collaborate with a talented team of engineers to ensure high code quality through the review and update of key application repositories. You will also partner with leadership to craft the strategy and vision for defining the architecture required to scale our current application, supporting integration with all payment networks and building a fully multi-tenant platform capable of handling both batch and real-time settlements.

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

•  Ensure Code is of the highest quality & standard while being an active reviewer on critical repos of the application

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in:

  • General software

    • Software engineering and solution architecture

    • Enterprise architecture and design patterns

  • Software specializations

    • Back end File Processing ETL Applications

    • Event based Systems

    • Building Multi Tenant Applications

  • Other specializations

    • Understanding of Payment Networks ( Visa, Master Card) and Transaction Types

    • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

    • Data architecture

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, Typescript, Go, JavaScript,TypeScript, or Swift.

• 8+  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 with public or private cloud technologies

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.