Capital One · 14 hours ago
Distinguished Software Engineer - Card Tech
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$294K/yr - $335K/yr
7+ years expCapital One is a leading financial services company seeking a Distinguished Software Engineer to join their Credit Card Technology Data Engineering Team. This role involves defining technical strategies, architecting secure and scalable systems, and providing organizational leadership to drive innovation in banking technology.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Capital One’s inbound card and loan capabilities across the customer experience, payment profiles, scheduling, fulfillment and money movement rails
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 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering
At least 7 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms
At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift
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
Benefits
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
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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
Recent News
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