Application Engineering Technical Lead - II / Lead Full Stack Engineer

VISCO Information Technology Services Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard India in Hyderabad seeks an experienced Application Engineering Technical Lead II to design and deliver scalable, secure cloud-native apps on AWS. You will lead hands-on engineering across Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Angular, and APIs while driving platform reliability and developer experience.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software engineering, 3+ in leadership, strong AWS expertise, and a background in financial services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related field.
• Strong hands-on Java development with Spring Boot and modern front-end stacks.
• Extensive AWS cloud experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, Docker, Kubernetes, and databases (SQL/NoSQL).
• Financial services or banking domain knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure cloud-native apps on AWS.
• Provide technical leadership across Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Angular, and APIs.
• Build reusable platform capabilities, tooling, and shared services.
• Ensure reliability, security, and operational excellence across deployments.
• Design and integrate REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, and serverless patterns.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and support CI/CD.
• Improve developer experience with patterns, automation, and self-service.
• Lead troubleshooting and production support, mentoring engineers.
• Establish coding standards, observability, testing, and delivery discipline.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders across teams.

Skills

Java

AWS

Spring Boot

Node.js

React

Angular

TypeScript

APIs

Microservices

REST

GraphQL

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Oracle

DB2

DynamoDB

Redis

Kafka

CloudWatch

Honeycomb

Banking experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

B.E./B.Tech in CS

Master’s degree in CS

Tools

CloudFormation

S3

Lambda

EC2

IAM

SNS/SQS

Job description

About Vanguard

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

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.

Benefits and Rewards

• 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.

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. Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.

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