Distinguished Engineer

Capital One Wylie, TX
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December 2, 2022
Capital One
Wylie, TX
OTHER
Locations: TX - Plano, United States of America, Plano, Texas

Distinguished Engineer

Capital One Auto Finance is the number one auto lender in the country with a multi-billion dollar loan portfolio and millions of customers. Within the Servicing organization we ensure that our customers have a smooth ride not only in their cars but also in the way their car loan is serviced by making sure our customers are equipped with the right tools built on the latest technology.

We provide a seamless digital experience between our Web and Mobile platforms, quick and easy to set up payment options, and products that help our customers when they are in difficult financial situations. We embrace and integrate with our enterprise platforms to ensure that our multi-LOB customers have the same experience across all Capital One products.

When you join our team you can expect to work on a breadth of technologies like AWS, Java, React, Python, Spark, Scala, Snowflake, etc to build cutting edge products that will help bring to life our vision to “Keep Customers in their Cars”. Come join us to keep abreast with the latest technologies and build creative products to provide a great experience for our customers.


Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in thought so we visualize the problem space. At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact our trajectory and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions.

  • Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

  • Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates

  • Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

  • Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

Responsibilities:

  • Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

  • Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team

  • Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible

  • Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization

  • Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

  • Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner

  • Lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster Capital One’s Tech talent

  • Drive best practices by creating technical content, code samples, blog posts, and educate our engineers on AWS Serverless technology

  • Provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One engineering teams

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • At least 7 years experience of software engineering or software development experience

  • At least 7 years experience working with one or more programming languages (Java, Python, NodeJs) on AWS or GCP

  • At least 7 years of experience with Spring framework

  • At least 5 years experience building applications using Angular or React 

  • At least 5 years experience developing resilient, scalable, distributed applications leveraging  event-driven and microservice architecture

  • At least 5 years Experience developing E-commerce applications

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters’ Degree 

  • 9+ years of software engineering experience

  • 5+ years experience with AWS Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge)

  • AWS certification (AWS Solutions Architect Associate) 

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

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. 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; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at

[email protected]

. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to

[email protected]

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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).


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