Software Engineer
Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading cloud‑based banking technology, driving innovation across architecture, machine learning, and secure distributed systems to optimize business outcomes and deliver reusable, high‑impact solutions.
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 Platform Engineering organization to provide AI-enabled tools for pipeline optimization and deterministic transformation capabilities that dramatically improve developer workflow, quality, and reliability.
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.
About the Team:
The Capital One Acquisitions Technology organization owns the customer journey through customer account opening, decisioning, and onboarding for our Retail and Small Business banks.
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy for a large group of engineers and will be the lead architect overseeing a critical part of the company’s continued growth. You’ll help move us toward a more dynamically-driven application flow, championing server-driven UI and backend-for-frontend (BFF) patterns to ensure we can pivot at the speed of the market. You’ll ensure we’re building resilient, performant, and maintainable applications so we can deliver what our customers expect from us. And you’ll guide our continued integration of AI into our entire software development lifecycle.
What you’ll do:
Architectural Evolution: Drive the transition to a dynamically-driven architecture, utilizing SDUI and BFF patterns to deco
Posted June 18, 2026