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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Distinguished Engineer (Decisioning Platform) - **Company:** Capital One Financial Corporation - **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $269,100.0 - $307,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Backend, Containerization, Information Technology, Software Coding, Golang - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.capitalonecareers.com/job/mclean/distinguished-engineer-decisioning-platform/1732/99731263616 ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree * At least 7 years of experience as hands on full stack or backend technologist * At least 5 years of professional experience coding in commonly used languages like Java, Python, Go * At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, solution architecture, site reliability engineering * At least 3 years of experience in cloud native technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), * Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field * 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support * 8+ years of experience in designing large scale and resilient applications * 3+ years of experience with solutioning a large scale platform * Familiarity with AI agents, agent orchestration and architecture ## Description Capital One's Card Decisioning Platform team is responsible to enable our business to manage risk and drive business value across the customer lifecycle by providing real-time, accurate , secure and AI powered decision-making solutions for customer transactions, fraud detection, alerts, credit inquiries and applications across card, lending and banking products. In this role, you will work with our decisioning platform squads to provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to help build the destination workflow orchestration for capital one. You will be a thought leader in this space to ensure we are building a world class platform that is scalable, resilient, multi-tenant and can support a variety of use cases in a frictionless manner catering to business users, engineers and analysts needs You will work with other Distinguished Engineers, Engineering leaders and Product partners to detail out design solutions and work closely with Software engineers to develop and engineer the products as envisioned by creating POCs, working with spec and code. Most of your time will be spent on writing code, reviewing PRs, and delivering code at a faster pace. You will be responsible to help the teams with setting up the best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience while also helping to remove technical impediments faced by your teams.. Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to our engineer, product, and leadership groups. 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., * Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your area of responsibility * Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions by willing to write code and create low level designs * Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation * Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability, observability 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 * Ability to apply the right level of judgement on delegation of work to mentor individual contributors and thereby help to mentor and coach next generation of distinguished engineers ## Related Videos - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100123-agentic-employees-in-world-s-most-downloaded-fintech-app) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) - [Building the Next Generation of Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100186-building-the-next-generation-of-software) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [6 Reasons to Use Java For Your Next AI Project](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/111-6-reasons-to-use-java-for-your-next-ai-project)