Distinguished Engineer

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Toronto, ON

Distinguished Engineer role focused on technical leadership, architecture, and driving innovation within the cloud banking domain. This is a director-equivalent individual contributor role requiring advanced hands-on development and design experience, mentoring, and evangelizing technical vision. The role emphasizes engineering excellence and acting as a trusted advisor for key technologies and platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
  2. Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
  3. Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
  4. Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
  5. Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
  6. Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact
  7. 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

Skills

Required

  • At least 10 years software engineering or software development experience
  • At least 7 years of public cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's or Master's 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)

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced hands-on development
  • technical design
  • architecture experiences