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Capital One · 6 hours ago

Distinguished Engineer - API Platform (GraphQL)(Remote-Eligible)

Capital One is a financial services company that is redefining banking in the cloud. The Distinguished Engineer will lead technical contributions, mentor talent, and drive innovation across engineering teams while ensuring the quality of technical design and implementation.

BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
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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

Qualification

Software engineeringSolution architectureGraphQL technologiesAWSDevOpsSQL databasesNoSQL databasesAuthentication technologiesAuthorization technologiesSite Reliability EngineeringLarge scale systemsCoding languages

Required

Bachelor's Degree
At least 7 years of experience in General software
At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering and Solution architecture

Preferred

10+ years of professional experience coding in one of the following software engineering languages (Golang, Rust, JavaScript, Python or Java)
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
5+ years of experience designing, building and operating large scale distributed systems
5+ years of experience with AWS
5+ years of experience with DevOps and AWS IaC
3+ years of experience with GraphQL technologies
3+ years of experience with Authentication and Authorization Technologies (implementing GraphQL security including fine grained authorizations, rate limiting , query complexity analysis)
3+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience operating with a Site Reliability (SRE) mindset and culture

Benefits

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

Company

Capital One

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Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$5.45B
Key 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

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Lo Li
CTO, Managing Vice President Retail Bank
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Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
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