Distinguished Engineer

Distinguished Engineer

About Capital One Canada.

For 30 years weve been on a mission to change banking for good and build relationships by making credit accessible simple intuitive and rewarding. We want to help Canadians succeed with credit because we believe in people in our customers in our associates and in talent like you!

About the Role.

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.

This is a director equivalent role that does not have direct reports. We require advanced hands-on development technical design and architecture experiences.

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.

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

Your 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:

• Bachelors Degree

• At least 10 years software engineering or software development experience

• At least 7 years of public cloud experience (AWS GCP Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 12 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java Python Go JavaScript/TypeScript Swift Kotlin etc.

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

• 6 years of experience with private cloud technologies

• 8 years of experience with Networking (BGP Wi-Fi SD-WAN Cloud Networking and Data Center Networking)

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Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).