Distinguished Engineer – Card Tech

Capital One

Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading technical contributions and driving innovation in banking solutions. Collaborating with experts and mentoring talent to optimize technology solutions.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeMcLean • Illinois, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $244,700 - $307,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoJavaJavaScriptPythonSwiftTypeScript

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

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: Java, Python, Golang)
- Supporting High TPS, real-time compute use cases
- Other specializations (Security engineering and architecture)
- Cloud and software-defined networking
- Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
- Data architecture including Event Driven and Real-Time architectures
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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, Go, JavaScript or TypeScript, Swift, etc.
- 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 patternsJavaPythonGolangcloud computingdata architecturereal-time architectures

Soft Skills

technical visionproblem decompositionquality assurancementoringcommunity engagementtime managementcoaching

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree in Computer Science