Distinguished Engineer, Card Tech

Capital One

Leading engineering expert at Capital One defining the future of cloud banking. Collaborate with teams to innovate and optimize solutions across platforms.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRichmond • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $307,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudETLGoJavaJavaScriptPythonSwiftTypeScript

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
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Ensure Code is of the highest quality & standard while being an active reviewer on critical repos of the application

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, Back end, File Processing, ETL Applications, Event based Systems, Building Multi Tenant Applications, Understanding of Payment Networks (Visa, Master Card) and Transaction Types, Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), Data architecture
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift.
8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
8+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsolution architectureenterprise architecturedesign patternsback end developmentETL applicationsevent-based systemsmulti-tenant applicationscloud computingdata architecture

Soft Skills

technical vision articulationproblem decompositionquality assurancementorshiptime managementcommunity engagementtechnical expertise coaching

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree in Computer Science