Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead (Remote-Eligible)

Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead

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 specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Card Intelligent Decisions & Experiences (CIDX) in Card Tech+ is responsible for the decisioning technology that guides our customers through their entire credit journey - from marketing, to product offers, real-time transaction approvals, and more.

In this role, you will be the Technical Lead for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization, setting and delivering the technical agenda for our Discover Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams. You will make applicant feature delivery rapid and intelligent, transforming custom, segment-specific initiatives into highly modular, reusable enterprise capabilities. You will drive an agenda to ship exponentially more products and experiences by identifying common technical patterns across unique customer journeys and arming FDE squads with extensible frameworks, unified data schemas, and configurable systems that allow for self-service product delivery.

This is not a pure architecture role; you will work closely with FDE squads coding, delivering, and operating the critical services they own across diverse codebases. The ideal candidate will excel at both surveying broad business domains to craft a technical strategy that allows squads to move with maximum agility, and diving deep into the details to personally deliver the highest-leverage projects from that roadmap.

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.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
• 4+ years of experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high availability, high throughput environments
• Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy
• 7+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 7+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies