Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Financial Services (Remote Eligible)
Posted 2025-04-06About the position
As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts focused on defining the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves driving innovation, optimizing business outcomes, and promoting a culture of engineering excellence. You will lead technical contributions, mentor talent, and serve as a trusted advisor on key technologies and platforms, specializing in code modernization and complex problem-solving.
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 advisor to senior technology leaders across Financial Services and other teams
,
 Act 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
Requirements
 Bachelor's Degree
,
 At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
,
 At least 5 years of experience with Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
,
 At least 5 years of experience designing and building distributed, low-latent, and resilient systems
Nice-to-haves
 Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
,
 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go
,
 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
,
 Broad experience with multiple programming language categories, including object-oriented, functional, and imperative
Benefits
 Comprehensive health benefits
,
 Financial benefits including performance-based incentives
,
 Inclusive work environment
,
 Opportunities for professional development
Apply Job!