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Distinguished Engineer - Global Payment Network

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of payments in the cloud.

You will work alongside a talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders using modern AI tools to deliver technical solutions to complex problems. 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 modern 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 drive a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and helping the ideas of others to 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.

You will operate as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code contributions, blog posts and root cause analysis to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. The Global Payment Network (GPN) Technology organization designs, builds, and operates the mission-critical systems and infrastructure that seamlessly power complex money movement across domestic and international rails. As an engineer in the Global Payment Network, you will apply your technical acumen to shape and deliver solutions to complex problems at massive scale. You will engineer solutions across core network products, simplify global participant integration, and rapidly deliver new features. You will unlock real-time insights and advance our capabilities in domains ranging from high-throughput transaction processing to advanced fraud and risk mitigation.

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.

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain and portfolio of applications, across engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership
Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions that deliver functional requirements with high performance and reliability
Leverage agentic AI to accelerate the delivery of modernized systems that power the future of our payment network
Drive quality of technical design and implementation, proactively identifying and removing technical debt from systems and friction from customer customer experiences
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, including performance, reliability, scalability and operability
Constantly learn and practice new technical skills, injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Act as a role model and mentor across the tech community, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise and skills of our engineering & product community

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Design
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.)
• 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through design, implementation, testing, deployment and production operation
• 7+ years of experience with systems meeting high performance and resiliency requirements
• 7+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
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