Application Engineering Technical Lead - II

• Operate as part of a product team with end-to-end accountability.
• Own development, production support, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead incident response and problem resolution efforts.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and portfolio management teams.
• Translate investment and liquidity management requirements into engineering solutions.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns.
• Support modernization of liquidity management systems.

• Minimum 8 years of experience in software development, architecture, and system integration.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor’s in Computer Applications (BCA), or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA).
• Learning mindset & coaching ability, Product ownership mentality, financial domain knowledge

• Strong experience in Golang, Python, and/or Java
• Hands-on experience with API design and microservices architecture
• Experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Event-driven and distributed systems experience preferred

• Angular and/or React
• Ability to contribute across the full stack when required

AWS Cloud, ECS / Fargate, Lambda, S3, Storage Gateway, IAM, CloudFormation, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

Agile delivery (Scrum and Kanban), Jira, Confluence, TDD / automated testing, Production support and operational ownership, Experience using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, etc.) preferred

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.