Distinguished Engineer – Software Engineering

Capital One

Distinguished Engineer driving innovation in banking technology at Capital One. Leading efforts in software engineering and cloud solutions while mentoring talent and optimizing business outcomes.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeMcLean • Massachusetts, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $269,100 - $335,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudJavaScriptTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Articulate and evangelize 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 maximize impact
Be hands-on and at the forefront of high-order problems such as multi-tenancy, right-time insights, centralized anomaly detection and action, and agentic patterns for Finance business orchestration.
Mentor and upskill the senior engineering talent within the organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation, and ensuring our innovation is not just fast, but scalable and resilient.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in General software Software engineering and solution architecture
Enterprise architecture and design patterns
Software specializations Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
Full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
Other specializations Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Data architecture

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsweb technologiesJavaScriptTypeScriptSPA frameworksmachine learningdata architecture

Soft Skills

technical visionproblem decompositionquality assurancementoringtime managementinnovationtechnical excellencescalabilityresiliencecommunity engagement

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree