Senior Distinguished Engineer

Capital One

Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading technical vision for web platform ecosystem. Collaborating with engineers to optimize architecture and standards for AI-native web delivery.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $314,800 - $359,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidAWSAzureCloudiOSJavaScriptSwitchingTypeScript

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
Define and drive the technical vision for Capital One’s web platform domain, spanning authenticated servicing, marketing/acquisition, and design system capabilities
Lead architectural decisions for large-scale platform integrations and migrations, ensuring long-term platform health while meeting delivery commitments
Establish AI-native development standards and practices for web platforms, including agentic tooling, machine-consumable architecture, and AI-assisted delivery workflows
Drive measurable improvement in developer experience and platform NPS across enterprise inner source contributors
Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business priorities across lines of business

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
Software engineering and solution architecture
Software specializations
Full ML development lifecycle using AI and ML frameworks
Designing and building distributed HPC and ML systems
Mobile technology and frameworks (iOS, Android)
Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
Network engineering and architecture
Data architecture
Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Advanced networking concepts in routing, switching and wi-fi
Cloud and software-defined networking
Security engineering and architecture

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Enterprise architectureSoftware engineeringSolution architectureMachine learningDistributed systemsMobile technologyWeb technologiesNetwork engineeringData architectureCloud computing

Soft Skills

Technical vision articulationProblem decompositionQuality assuranceMentorshipProject managementCollaborationLeadershipCommunity engagementStrategic alignmentCoaching

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree