Capital One · 7 hours ago
Director, Distinguished Engineer (Card TECH)
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$269K/yr - $307K/yr
10+ years expCapital One is a financial services company seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define the future of banking in the cloud. This role involves leading technical contributions, mentoring talent, and driving innovation across engineering teams to optimize business outcomes and enhance developer workflows.
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
Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for embedding AI and automated code transformation into the developer lifecycle
Decompose complex problems in CI/CD friction and technical debt into practical, operational, and scalable platform solutions
Lead the productionization of capabilities that optimize the Inner and Outer Loop (CI/CD, deployment, and testing) and enable Shift-Left practices
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, particularly performance, scalability, and observability of the engineering toolchain itself
Drive innovation by experimenting with and delivering capabilities that utilize Deterministic Code Transformation and AI/ML for engineering workflows (e.g., Intelligent Test Selection)
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching teams on modern reliability, platform engineering, and automation best practices
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
At least 10 years of experience in Software Engineering and Solution Architecture for large-scale distributed systems
At least 5 years of professional experience leveraging public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
At least 5 years of professional experience writing and delivering Proofs of Concept (POCs) for novel technologies or architectural patterns
At least 5 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as AWS CDK or CloudFormation
At least 5 years of professional experience driving the adoption of enterprise-level design patterns and best practices for software quality and reliability
At least 5 years of hands-on professional experience coding in two or more of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, or Go
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development
10+ years of professional experience coding in languages like Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript
5+ years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines at scale using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Tekton
Expertise with Policy-as-Code (PaC) technologies such as Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Experience with Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), static analysis tools, or other forms of programmatic code manipulation for automated refactoring
Experience in MLOps or applying Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning concepts to engineering challenges (e.g., anomaly detection, test optimization, intelligent testing)
Deep practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, chaos engineering, and advanced Observability tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Tracing)
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
Recent News
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