Capital One Director Distinguished Engineer Back End - Card Technology 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

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Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Director, Distinguished Engineer (Back End) - Card Technology

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.

In this role, you will work on our Decisioning Platform to provide hands on deep technical expertise . You will act as a bridge between developers and executive management . You will work with other Distinguished Engineers to detail out high level designs to help Software engineers with clarity to develop and engineer the products as envisioned . You will be responsible to help the teams with setting up the best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience . Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to our engineer, product, and leadership groups.

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

• Involved with products software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 10 years of experience as hands on full stack technologist

• At least 7 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, solution architecture or data architecture

• At least 3 years of experience in cloud native technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

• 10+ years of experience in designing large scale and resilient applications

• 3+ years of experience with solutioning a large scale platform

• Familiarity with Security engineering and architecture, cloud and software-defined networking, site reliability engineering

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for 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.

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