Distinguished Engineer (Director IC) - Card Author

at Capital One in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

11 West 19th Street (22008), United States of America, New York, New York

Distinguished Engineer (Director IC) - Card Authorizations

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, machine learning 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.

In this role, you will work with our Card Tech Authorizations organization that builds and delivers on spend strategies which advance credit card usage across the payments ecosystem. You will set and execute the vision and strategy of modern platforms directly interfacing with credit card networks, acquirers, and partners to deliver amazing, next-generation, credit card capabilities to our customers. From deeply understanding the card payment ecosystem to supporting massive scale platforms that are highly resilient and performant, you will strategically lead with our engineering teams that create the future spend capabilities for our customers.

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 software engineering and solution architecture

At least 5 years of experience designing and building distributed, transactional, low-latent, and resilient systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

10+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture

10+ years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go

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

3+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies

2+ years of experience working on credit card authorizations systems

2+ years of experience working with credit card payment... For full info follow application link.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; Newark, New Jersey Ordinance 12-1630; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.