Senior Distinguished Engineer

- Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

- Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

- 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

- Partner with product management to set an ambitious roadmap for expanding Capital One's reach.

- Hands-on full-stack coding (frontend, backend, data processing, automation)

- Lead the multi-year strategy to decommission legacy systems and converge the destination stack, reducing maintenance overhead and eliminating duplicative customer experiences across channels.

- Stand up and scale a hybrid SRE + Engineering Productivity function supporting the entire Acquisitions engineering org, achieving strong statistical process control and operational maturity.

- Design solutions that enable non-technical contributors to design, test, and deliver marketing experiments, UI treatments, and credit offers.

- At least 9 years of experience in Software engineering and solution architecture

- At least 9 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns

- At least 9 years of experience with Javascript, TypeScript and SPA frameworks

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

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems architecture, or platform engineering

- 5+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering organizations (50+ engineers across multiple management layers)

- Deep experience with API design, microservices architecture, and platform evolution in high-availability, high-throughput environments

- Experience founding or leading SRE / production excellence functions, including SLO management, incident response, and reliability engineering

- Demonstrated ability to partner with product management and business stakeholders to co-own product strategy - not just take tickets

- Track record of decommissioning legacy systems and executing large-scale migrations without disrupting production traffic or team morale

- 10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, etc.

- 10+ 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 will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.