Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Fraud Technology

Capital One•San Francisco, CA

12d

About The Position

As a Sr. 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: When a customer’s credit card or personal information is stolen, it is a defining and increasingly frequent moment in our customers’ financial lives. According to Experian, in 2017 alone 14 million credit card numbers and 158 million social security numbers were exposed. Increasingly, this type of activity is carried out by sophisticated international criminal organizations, who are constantly innovating and using the latest technologies to commit these crimes. In the Fraud domain, we dream of building more intuitive, elegant products and experiences, leveraging AI & Gen AI, that change and have a positive impact on our customers' lives. We are looking for a Senior Distinguished Engineer to define, architect and drive the implementation of Fraud Products & Platforms powering dynamic, personalized experiences for customers and agents If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 9 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

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 Fraud defenses and Fraud & Disputes claims processing
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