Senior Distinguished Engineer

About the role

You will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Partner with product management to set an ambitious roadmap for expanding Capital One’s reach
• Hands-on full-stack coding (frontend, backend, data processing, automation)
• Lead the multi-year strategy to decommission legacy systems and converge the destination stack, reducing maintenance overhead and eliminating duplicative customer experiences across channels
• Stand up and scale a hybrid SRE + Engineering Productivity function supporting the entire Acquisitions engineering org, achieving strong statistical process control and operational maturity
• Design solutions that enable non-technical contributors to design, test, and deliver marketing experiments, UI treatments, and credit offers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
• At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• At least 9 years of experience with Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations (50+ engineers across multiple management layers)
• Deep experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high-availability, high-throughput environments
• Experience founding or leading SRE / production excellence functions, including SLO management, incident response, and reliability engineering
• Track record of decommissioning legacy systems and executing large-scale migrations without disrupting production traffic or team morale
• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience with cloud technologies
• Experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution
• Experience with SRE and production excellence functions

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits

Pay

• Chicago, IL: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
• Mclean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
• Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer

Schedule

• Full-time