Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Capital One is a financial services company seeking a Sr. Distinguished Engineer to be part of a technical community focused on defining the future of payments in the cloud. The role involves leading innovation, mentoring talent, and delivering technical solutions to complex problems while driving engineering excellence across the organization.

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 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 and leading organizational adoption of AI-powered engineering
• Handle multiple concurrent engagements, rapidly context shifting between detailed technical solutions and broad strategic engagement to accelerate value creation
• Lead tech-driven innovation across engineers and executives, coaching organizations and mentoring individuals to elevate the technical acumen across engineering, business & product groups

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 7 years of experience designing distributed systems
• At least 7 years of experience with public cloud technologies
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 12+ 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.)
• 10+ 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
• 8+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
• Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards (e.g. PCI-DSS)
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Benefits

• This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
• 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.

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