Capital One Sr Distinguished Engineer - Consumer Experience 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

978058796

Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Consumer Experience

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

Key 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

What you’ll do:

• Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our backend systems and platforms that powers real-time, personalized product experience.

• Partner cross-functionally with client, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning platform teams to align on and co-develop technical solutions.

• Architect and build highly secure & scalable systems that enable server-driven product experiences across devices, with exceptional reliability and availability.

• Design high-throughput, low-latency services capable of handling millions of concurrent client requests.

• Design and implement API & federated BFF (Back-end for Front end) strategy for efficient data access (fetching, caching, request coalescing, etc.) between backend services and clients, with democratized data schema contribution.

• Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks to enable rapid issue detection, debugging and resolution, across the entire product system stack.

• Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers and driving organization wide platform innovation.

• Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and designing high-scale distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms

• At least 5 years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and designing high-scale distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms

• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.

• 7+ years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available services

• 7+ years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL, REST, API gateways, gRPC, caching, and streaming).

• 7+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and automated deployment

• 5+ years of experience building Server-Driven UI platforms delivering personalized experiences at scale.

McLean, VA: $308,700 - $352,300 for Sr Distinguished Engineer Richmond, VA: $280,600 - $320,200 for Sr Distinguished EngineerThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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