Application Engineering Technical Lead - II // Lead Full Stack Engineer

Overview

Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, cloud-native applications and platform capabilities, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership across Java, AWS, event-driven/serverless architecture, APIs, modern front-end technologies, and platform engineering.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of Python.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India.
• Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
• Hybrid working model for most employees.