About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard’s India Office
Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
Role Summary
Responsibilites
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable, high-performance APIs and microservices supporting enterprise financial analytics platforms.
- Provide senior-level system analysis, design, development, implementation, and integration of applications, databases, and third-party solutions.
- Translate business and technical requirements into robust, maintainable code for new applications and enhancements. Develop, test, and deploy software solutions while supporting automation initiatives.
- Lead backend system optimization efforts to ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and responsiveness under varying workloads.
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, DynamoDB, and microservices architecture.
- Spearhead the integration of multiple data sources, APIs, and services to streamline data flow and improve overall system efficiency.
- Build and modernize centralized financial analysis services that provide portfolio analytics, investment performance, holdings, balances, and other investment insights.
- Collaborate with front-end and cross-functional teams to design backend services and interfaces that deliver seamless user experiences.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, testing, and production deployments to ensure quality and adherence to engineering standards.
- Elevate code through development, testing, and production environments while providing production support and managing change control processes.
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring architecture, workflows, and backend logic are well documented for cross-functional teams.
- Implement and advocate best practices for software engineering, security, data protection, system resiliency, and compliance with enterprise technology standards.
- Mentor junior engineers, provide technical guidance, and help resolve complex technical issues and escalations.
- Analyze system performance, troubleshoot issues, and recommend continuous improvements to application architecture and development processes.
- Communicate technical concepts, risks, and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with organizational technology, security, and governance policies while delivering high-quality, reliable solutions.
- Support API modernization and platform engineering initiatives that enable a centralized enterprise-scale API ecosystem.
- Participate in special projects and other duties as required to support business and technology objectives.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 5 years of experience in software development, system integration, database design, and back-end architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.
- Expertise in server-side development, system integration, and API management; strong knowledge of database design, optimization, debugging, and performance tuning.
- Strong experience in Java and Spring Boot for building enterprise-grade applications and RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on expertise in designing and developing Microservices-based architectures.
- Proven experience with API Development, including scalable, secure, and high-performance services.
- Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud Services and cloud-native application development.
- Experience with DynamoDB and NoSQL database design.
- Understanding of software design principles, system integration, and distributed systems.
- Good problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Location
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
Our mission
Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Our commitment to you
Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
Financial wellness
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.
Physical wellness
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.
Personal wellness
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.
How we work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in software development, system integration, database design, and back-end architecture
- Bachelor's degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or Master's/Diploma in Computer Science
- Strong experience with Java
- Strong experience with Spring Boot
- Hands-on expertise designing and developing Microservices-based architectures
- Proven experience with API development and RESTful APIs
- Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud Services and cloud-native application development
- Experience with DynamoDB and NoSQL database design
- Experience with database optimization, debugging, and performance tuning
- Good problem-solving, debugging, performance optimization, communication and collaboration skills
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
