Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech)

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,100 - 307,200; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, Virginia seeks a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical vision across banking cloud platforms, drive scalable multi-tenant architecture, and mentor engineers. You will shape architecture, review critical repos, and collaborate with product managers and ML experts to deliver high-impact solutions.

This senior role requires deep expertise in software engineering, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), event-driven systems, and payments networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• Experience with back end file processing ETL, event-based systems, and multi-tenant applications.
• Knowledge of payment networks (Visa, MasterCard) and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Articulate an innovative technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure high quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an expert on performance, scalability, and operability.
• Share advanced knowledge through code samples and blogs.
• Collaborate with leadership to define scalable architecture for the platform.
• Mentor engineers and influence the engineering community.
• Review critical application repos to maintain code quality.

Skills

Java

Python

TypeScript

Go

JavaScript

Swift

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

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 specialise 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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelise 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 maximise 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 specialisations
    • Back end File Processing ETL Applications
    • Event‑based Systems
    • Building Multi‑Tenant Applications
  • Other specialisations
    • 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 such as Java, Python, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, Swift
• 8+ years of professional experience in the full life‑cycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 8+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

Compensation

• McLean, VA: $269,100 – $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer
• Richmond, VA: $244,700 – $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer
• Other locations: pay range associated with that location as reflected in the offer letter

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well‑being. Eligibility varies based on full or part‑time status, exempt or non‑exempt status, and management level.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug‑free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.