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Capital One

Distinguished Engineer driving engineering excellence at Capital One, leading technical contributions in cloud banking and mentorship across engineering teams.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $307,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoJavaJavaScriptPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Involved in architecting software and systems powering loyalty rewards and benefits capabilities
Responsible for the quality and engineering excellence across systems that process hundreds of thousands of orders per day
Lead by example by spending a significant portion of time writing code and directly contributing to code bases in conjunction with our engineers
Leverage modern AI coding tools such as Windsurf and Claude Code to augment software product delivery.
Work closely with business partners on scoping, defining, and building features for our customers, including new product launches
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, observability, 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
Ability to influence senior stakeholders and partners to allocate resources to the most important technical initiative

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering including system design and regular code contributions
At least 1 year of experience using generative AI coding tools to enhance and augment our software development practices and capabilities
At least 7 years of experience in Back End technologies (Go, Java, Python, Database Design, etc.)
At least 7 years of experience in Web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
At least 7 years of experience creating and enforcing standards to ensure standardization and simplification of the overall platform
At least 7 years of experience leveraging modern cloud computing platforms effectively and efficiently (e.g. AWS)
At least 7 years of experience in designing scalable microservice architectures that operate at scale in a complex environment

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 architecturesystem designBack End technologiesGoJavaPythonDatabase DesignJavaScriptTypeScriptmicroservice architecture

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringproblem decompositioninfluencing stakeholderscommunicationcollaborationtime managementtechnical vision articulationcommunity engagementquality assurance

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree