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Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Capital One
Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-01-13
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 269100 - 307200 USD Yearly USD 269100.00 307200.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Distinguished Engineer ( Card Tech)

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, industry experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Key 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

Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 7 years of experience in:


  • General software

    • Software engineering and solution architecture

    • Enterprise architecture and design patterns


  • Software specializations

    • Web technologies (Java, Python, Golang) supporting High TPS, real time compute use cases


  • Other specializations

    • Security engineering and architecture

    • Cloud and software-defined networking

    • Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

    • Data architecture including Event Driven and Real-Time architectures

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's or 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/Type Script, Swift, etc.

  • 8+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Richmond,

VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Anytown, IL: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at…

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