Capital One · 14 hours ago
Sr. Distinguished Engineer - Fraud Technology
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $320K/yr
9+ years expCapital One is a leading financial institution focused on redefining banking in the cloud. As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, you will lead technical strategy and innovation in the Fraud domain, driving the development of secure and scalable solutions to enhance customer experiences.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
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
Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our systems and platforms that power Fraud defenses and Fraud & Disputes claims processing
Partner cross-functionally with client, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning platform teams to align on and co-develop technical solutions
Architect and build highly secure & scalable systems that enable server-driven product experiences across devices, with exceptional reliability and availability
Design high-throughput, low-latency services capable of handling millions of concurrent requests
Design and implement API & federated BFF (Back-end for Front end) strategy for efficient data access (fetching, caching, request coalescing, etc.) between backend services and clients, with democratized data schema contribution
Architect enhanced Observability and Monitoring frameworks to enable rapid issue detection, debugging and resolution, across the entire product system stack
Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers and driving organization wide platform innovation
Leverage proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 9 years of experience in software engineering
At least 9 years of experience designing distributed systems, backend architecture, and API platforms
At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift
7+ years of experience in event-driven systems and architecting scalable, fault-tolerant, highly-available services
7+ years of experience in building high-performance API platforms and federated BFF architectures (GraphQL, REST, API gateways, gRPC, caching, and streaming)
7+ years of experience with cloud-native engineering (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and automated deployment
Benefits
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
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