Distinguished Software Engineer - Card Tech

Capital One • New York, NY

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About The Position

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. 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. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community. 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. About the Team: Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Software Engineer, to work in our Credit Card Technology Data Engineering Team and build the future of financial services. We are a fast-paced, mission-driven group responsible for managing and leveraging petabytes of sensitive, real-time and batch data that powers everything from fraud detection models and personalized reward systems to regulatory compliance reporting. As a leader in Software Engineering, you won't just move data; you'll architect high-availability that directly influence millions of customer experiences and secure billions in transactions daily. You'll own critical data domains end-to-end, working cross-functionally with ML Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Analysts teams etc to solve complex, high-stakes problems with cutting-edge cloud technologies (like Snowflake, Kafka, and AWS). If you thrive on technical challenges, demand data integrity, and want your work to have a clear, measurable impact on the bank’s core profitability and security, this is your team. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for delivering customer value through automation, machine learning and predictive analytics.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level