Lead Full Stack Engineer – API & Cloud

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

This role manages and develops a team while providing expert-level software and application development services, and oversees backend integration, performance improvements, and alignment with business goals.

Responsibilites
1. Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
2. Works with product leaders and functional leads to ensure adequate development resources are in place in alignment with strategic goals.
3. Provides expert level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrates third party products. Ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved.
4. Identifies potential solutions and approves technical solutions proposed by team members. Elevates complex technical issues to IT experts. Resolves technical problems discovered by testers and internal clients. Responds to and resolves technical issues in a timely manner. Researches issues and performs root cause analysis.
5. Ensures consistency of the knowledge and skills, sharing best practices and common challenges in their area and others. Maintains current knowledge of IT development methodology, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff as new standards are instituted, ensures their usage by team members.
6. Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies and effectively persuades and influences others on ideas. Provides realistic task and cost estimates.
7. Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
8. Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
9. Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to identify issues. Participates as a technical consultant at other project meetings. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
10. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
11. Oversees integration of APIs and services, promoting efficient, dependable data flow.
12. Guides teams in troubleshooting system inefficiencies and improving backend operations.
13. Advocates strong documentation and alignment of backend processes with business goals.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 8 years of experience with 5 years of hands-on development experience in application development, system architecture, and software engineering,
• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor’s in Computer Applications (BCA) from a recognized institution or Masters degree in relevant field
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of training and experience).
• Direct familiarity with and knowledge of formulae and algorithms relating to personal performance (time and money-weighted returns), income, yield and related concepts
• Strong mathematical and computational mindset, particularly in relation to investment concepts such as internal rate of return, discount rates and geometric means and experience managing in large engineering organizations including team building, scaling, restructuring, and talent acquisition
• Solid technical foundation in AWS cloud platforms, API development, microservices architecture, batch processing systems, and modern development practices
• Strong expertise in software development methodologies (Agile, DevOps, CI/CD), system integration, and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with enterprise application architecture, microservices, APIs, and third-party product integration.
• Proficiency in database management, performance optimization, and security best practices and must have skills including Java, Spring Boot, Maven, Python, Control-M and Cucumber
• Ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills to address complex technical challenges.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of translating technical concepts into business terms.
• Experience with project planning, cost estimation, and risk assessment in software development.
• Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, TOGAF, PMP, or equivalent industry-recognized certifications.

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.