Remote Senior Distinguished Engineer – Payments & AI

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Distinguished Engineer to lead technology across payments in the cloud, collaborating with developers, ML teams, product managers, and people leaders. You will drive innovation, establish engineering excellence, mentor talent, and recruit to grow Capital One Tech.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, trusted advisory across platforms, and spearheading AI-powered engineering to scale high-performance, secure systems for global money movement.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 7+ years of experience designing distributed systems.
• 7+ years of experience with public cloud technologies.
• Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards (e.g. PCI-DSS).

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision across multiple domains and mission critical platforms, across engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership.
• Proactively propose solutions to complex problems into practical and operational solutions that deliver functional requirements with high performance and reliability.
• Partner with executive leaders across business, product, and technology functions to set the direction for strategic investment and high-leverage technical decisions.
• Accelerate use of agentic AI to accelerate the delivery of modernized systems that power the future of our payment network, by deploying reusable patterns to scale AI across our engineering teams and high priority investments.
• Elevate quality of technical design and implementation across the engineering organization, proactively identifying and removing technical debt from systems and friction from customer experiences.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Distinguished Engineer to lead technology across payments in the cloud, collaborating with developers, ML teams, product managers, and people leaders. You will drive innovation, establish engineering excellence, mentor talent, and recruit to grow Capital One Tech.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, trusted advisory across platforms, and spearheading AI-powered engineering to scale high-performance, secure systems for global money movement.