Capital One · 15 hours ago
Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech)
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$245K/yr - $279K/yr
7+ years expCapital One is a leading financial services company seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join their community of technical experts. The role involves defining the future of banking in the cloud, driving innovation, and providing technical leadership across the organization.
Financial Services
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
Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Credit Card Core systems
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 requests
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture
At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
At least 5 years of experience developing large scale distributed systems
At least 3+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Preferred
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 or Go
8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
Justin Burch
Senior Vice President
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