At Capital One, we think and work like a tech company, using our digital fluency to transform everything about the customer experience. We’re bending data to our will, and turning a stodgy industry on its head. That’s reflected in our ranking as the number one business technology innovator in the U.S. in the 2016 InformationWeek Elite 100.
Distinguished Engineer – Agentic AI
Location
Virginia
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$269.1K - $307.2K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Distinguished Engineer – Agentic AI
Capital One
• Rapidly prototype & assess new technologies that enable hyper personalized marketing and assistive field sales systems • Partner with (& influence) our enterprise and card tech organizations to help Capital One develop the best agentic marketing & sales systems on the planet • Establish and evangelize technical charters that will help the org more quickly adopt AI technologies • Bridge the gap between our current systems and the future, ensuring that existing systems remain healthy and continue to serve the business • Regularly clear roadblocks for developers across the org - with exceptional judgement for when to apply technical, process, or risk-acceptance solutions • 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 • 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 • Provide architectural guidance and designs for large scale cross-domain programs • Working with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
- At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
- At least 3 years of experience with AWS
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate "Agentic AI" concepts into business value
- 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
- 10+ years of experience coding in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift
- 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
- Wellness programs
- Performance based incentive compensation
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