As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of payments in the cloud.

You will work alongside a talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders using modern AI tools to deliver technical solutions to complex problems. 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 modern technology solutions.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through hands-on technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code contributions, blog posts and root cause analysis 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 leveraged throughout the organization.

The Global Payment Network (GPN) Technology organization designs, builds, and operates the mission-critical systems and infrastructure that seamlessly power complex money movement across domestic and international rails. We build and operate a high-volume, low-latency, and highly resilient distributed ecosystem that is simultaneously secure, performant, accurate, and nimble.

As an engineer in the Global Payment Network, you will apply your technical acumen to shape and deliver solutions to complex problems at massive scale. You will engineer solutions across core network products, simplify global participant integration, and rapidly deliver new features. You will unlock real-time insights and advance our capabilities in domains ranging from high-throughput transaction processing to advanced fraud and risk mitigation.

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.

Key responsibilities:

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain and portfolio of applications, across engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership

• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions that deliver functional requirements with high performance and reliability

• Leverage agentic AI to accelerate the delivery of modernized systems that power the future of our payment network

• Drive quality of technical design and implementation, proactively identifying and removing technical debt from systems and friction from customer customer experiences

• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, including performance, reliability, scalability and operability

• Constantly learn and practice new technical skills, injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community

• Handle multiple concurrent engagements, nimbly adapting focus to maximize impact of yourself and the broader organization

• Act as a role model and mentor across the tech community, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise and skills of our engineering & product community

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering

• At least 5 years of experience designing distributed systems

• At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Systems Design

• 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.)

• 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through design, implementation, testing, deployment and production operation

• 7+ years of experience with systems meeting high performance and resiliency requirements

• 7+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

• Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards (e.g. PCI-DSS)

• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.