Senior Distinguished Engineer (Remote-Eligible)
About the role
The Sr. Distinguished Engineer will lead the technical agenda for Capital One's Card Acquisitions engineering organization. They will drive innovation in credit decisioning, making it real-time and intelligent, and will help personalize and contextualize credit products and the card application experience.
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)
- Own the customer acquisitions data ecosystem, arming analysts with high-quality data feeds to deepen understanding of consumer sentiment, customer behavior, and market dynamics as well as enhance credit decision modeling
- Lead the design and implementation of new credit and lending capabilities, creating financial products perfectly tailored to individual customer needs and circumstances
- Drive conversion funnel optimization by building entirely new platform primitives for performing real time customer experience personalization and conversational finance management
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 9 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
- At least 9 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
- At least 9 years of experience in Web technologies (Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks)
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations (50+ engineers across multiple management layers)
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
- 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift
- 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
- Deep experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high availability, high throughput environments
- Experience designing, managing, and measuring user behavior, online A/B tests, and growth engineering
- Track record of successfully executing large scale migrations, designing and launching replacement systems without disrupting production traffic or feature development
- Experience designing and optimizing real time streaming and batch dataflows, enterprise data marts, and model execution engines
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Pay
Remote (Regardless of Location): $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr Distinguished Engineer McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer
Schedule
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.