Distinguished Engineer - Android Platforms

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Distinguished Engineer - Android Platforms

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’ll provide technical leadership to teams of mobile engineers supporting the core Android platform upon which Capital One’s award-winning mobile app is built. The frameworks you contribute to will be used by hundreds of engineers across the company and shipped to millions of customers. You’ll bring extensive experience in mobile development and Android ecosystem, including but not limited to Kotlin and the Android SDK; familiarity with reactive and asynchronous programming patterns; proficiency with build tooling (Gradle) and testing (jUnit, Espresso); a strong understanding of UIs development (XML, Jetpack Compose); and a passion for platform engineering.

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.

Job Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation

• 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

• 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

• Provide thought leadership to all initiatives in the Android engineering space, ensuring that our approaches reflect industry best practices and incorporates the latest recommendations from Google and other beacons

• Proactively identify technical challenges and work collaboratively with the teams across the organization to devise innovative solutions, promoting a culture of problem-solving and creativity

• Serve as a vocal advocate for the mobile platform within both internal and external developer communities, fostering knowledge sharing and innovation

• Collaborate closely with leaders and teams across various disciplines (Android, iOS, APIs, Web, etc.), cultivating a culture of cross-functional collaboration and learning

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience in mobile development for Android

• At least 5 years of experience with following technologies: Kotlin, Coroutines, Channels, Flow, Android Studio, and the Android SDK 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field

• 10+ years of experience in Android development