Distinguished Engineer - Technical Lead (Remote-Eligible)
In this role, you will be the Technical Lead for the Card Acquisitions engineering organization, setting and delivering the technical agenda for our Discover Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams. You will make applicant feature delivery rapid and intelligent, transforming custom, segment-specific initiatives into highly modular, reusable enterprise capabilities. You will drive an agenda to ship exponentially more products and experiences by identifying common technical patterns across unique customer journeys and arming FDE squads with extensible frameworks, unified data schemas, and configurable systems that allow for self-service product delivery.
This is not a pure architecture role; you will work closely with FDE squads coding, delivering, and operating the critical services they own across diverse codebases. The ideal candidate will excel at both surveying broad business domains to craft a technical strategy that allows squads to move with maximum agility, and diving deep into the details to personally deliver the highest-leverage projects from that roadmap.
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
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
Design, build, and maintain a resilient, high-performance ecosystem that supports aggressive portfolio growth while upholding strict standards of operational excellence.
Maximize the efficiency, intelligence, and capability of core credit decisioning systems. Simplify and modernize backend architectures to significantly compress the feature delivery lifecycle.
Engineer advanced, flexible frontend capabilities that allow the business to rapidly deploy new applicant user flows, custom segment experiences, and real-time product offers.
Act as the technical catalyst that transforms raw business intents into scalable software solutions, ensuring engineering teams can pivot and deploy features with maximum agility.
Drive Technical Excellence: Foster a culture of continuous modernization, guiding cross-functional teams to build modular, reusable codebases that eliminate technical silos across the Acquisitions domain.
Basic Qualifications:Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering
4+ years of experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in highavailability, high throughput environments
Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy
7+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.
7+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies
Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.
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.
Remote (Regardless of Location): $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished EngineerAnytown, IL: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer
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 candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital 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.
