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Senior Distinguished Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

McLean, VA, US🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $286,200–$286,200🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Sr. Distinguished Engineer leading the Card Acquisitions engineering organization to build real-time intelligent credit decisioning, dynamic offers, and personalized financial products in the cloud.

Role type

Senior Distinguished Engineer (hands-on IC with technical leadership)

Builds

Real-time credit decisioning systems, dynamic credit offers, conversational finance management platforms, and customer acquisition data ecosystems.

Domain

Fintech / Cloud Computing / Machine Learning / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP), Web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript/SPA), Full-stack coding (frontend/backend/data/automation), API design, Microservices architecture, Real-time streaming and batch dataflows, Model execution engines, A/B testing and growth engineering, System architecture and design

Preferred skills

Leading large-scale engineering organizations (50+ engineers), Distributed systems architecture, Platform engineering, Full lifecycle system development, High availability/high throughput environments, User behavior analysis, Product strategy partnership, Large scale system migrations

Technologies

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Swift

Responsibilities

Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision; Decompose complex problems into practical solutions; Ensure quality of technical design and implementation; Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional characteristics (performance, scalability, operability); Inject advanced technical knowledge into the community; Balance multiple projects to maximize impact; Mentor and coach the engineering and product community; Partner with product management to set an ambitious roadmap; Perform hands-on full-stack coding; Own the customer acquisitions data ecosystem; Lead design and implementation of new credit and lending capabilities; Drive conversion funnel optimization via new platform primitives.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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