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 India
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
The Application Engineering Technical Lead II leads the design and delivery of scalable, secure, cloud-native applications and platform capabilities. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Java, AWS, event-driven/serverless architecture, APIs, modern front-end technologies, and platform engineering.
The ideal candidate brings deep software engineering experience, strong AWS expertise, technical leadership capabilities, and experience working within the financial services industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable applications and event-driven, serverless solutions on AWS.
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Angular, and APIs.
- Build and enhance reusable platform capabilities, infrastructure, tooling, and shared services.
- Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence through effective coding, testing, monitoring, and engineering practices.
- Design and integrate REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Apply Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation, and support automated CI/CD and cloud deployments.
- Improve developer experience through reusable engineering patterns, automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex application and production issues and participate in production support/on-call activities.
- Establish strong engineering practices across code quality, testing, observability, monitoring, and continuous delivery.
- Mentor engineers, lead technical discussions and design reviews, and collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 10 years of overall software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
- Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or a related field, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.
- Strong hands-on development experience with Java, along with Spring Boot, Node.js, Angular, React, TypeScript, APIs, and microservices. Working knowledge of Python is beneficial.
- Strong AWS experience, including cloud-native, serverless and event-driven architectures, with knowledge of services such as Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, HTTP patterns, distributed systems, and event-driven application design.
- Experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational/NoSQL databases, caching, and messaging technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kafka.
- Strong understanding of platform engineering, reusable engineering patterns, developer tooling, self-service capabilities, and developer experience.
- Experience with production monitoring and observability using tools such as Honeycomb, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch, with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Experience delivering technology solutions within banking, financial services, or financial-sector environments.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Location
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. 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
- Minimum 10 years of overall software engineering experience
- At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or a Master's degree or Diploma in Computer Science
- Hands-on development experience with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Angular, React, TypeScript, APIs, and microservices
- Strong AWS experience, including cloud-native, serverless, and event-driven architectures
- Knowledge of AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch
- Understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, HTTP patterns, distributed systems, and event-driven application design
- Experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, caching, and messaging technologies
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kafka
- Understanding of platform engineering, reusable engineering patterns, developer tooling, self-service capabilities, and developer experience
- Experience with production monitoring and observability using Honeycomb, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues
- Experience delivering technology solutions within banking, financial services, or financial-sector environments
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Working knowledge of Python
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.
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