Capital One · 1 day ago
Sr. Distinguished Software Engineer (Anti-Money Laundering)
McLean, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$315K/yr - $359K/yr
9+ years expCapital One is a financial institution seeking a Sr. Distinguished Engineer to define the future of banking in the cloud. The role involves leading technical contributions, mentoring talent, and developing innovative solutions to complex problems in the Anti-Money Laundering domain.
BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
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 observability, resiliency, and operational excellence
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
Learn the business of our stakeholders and conceive of creative technical solutions that solve for their goals
Develop full stack applications with a product engineering mindset, spanning frontend and backend ecosystems that balance simplicity with flexibility
Utilize AWS cloud Infrastructure across the entire stack (IaaS primitives to PaaS offerings)
Utilize best practices for modern engineering operations including observability, SLOs, Continuous Deployment, and Incident Management that embrace a "you build it, you run it" mentality
Employ frameworks like Spark, Flink, Kafka, and Dagster for large-scale data architectures and data processing
Demonstrate ability to write high-quality technical documentation to align partner teams and influence stakeholders
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
At least 9 years of experience in Software Engineering and solution architecture
At least 9 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture
Preferred
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of experience in Software Engineering and solution architecture
3+ years of experience in building tools within Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer, Financial Crime, or Fraud detection domains
3+ years of professional experience implementing AI/ML strategies for anomaly detection, entity resolution in a regulatory environment that requires a high bar for explainability
3+ years professional experience implementing Product Observability
Benefits
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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