Job description
Position: DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER, DIRECTOR - CARD DIGITAL TECH
Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Distinguished Engineer, Director - Card Digital Tech

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’s Card Digital team is responsible for delivering web and mobile experiences to our credit card customers, using a suite of modern technologies. Exploring ways to harness the power of AI, and other emerging technologies, this team is at the forefront of delivering customized, curated capabilities for our end customers. Working in a fast paced environment with highly passionate product and engineering teams, a successful candidate will provide:
• Deep technical expertise and thought leadership, to helps accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Vision, collaborating on some of Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers
• Mentorship, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• A strong voice, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish it as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

If you are ready to provide technical leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Key responsibilities:
• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for the Digital 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
• Engage on several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
• Support building software in a regulated, well managed environment
• 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

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering or solution architecture
• At least 7 years of experience in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, Go, Angular, JavaScript/Type Script, Swift, Kotlin)
• At least 5 years of experience building customer facing applications
• At least 3 years of experience…