Full Stack Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Overview

Senior full stack engineering role leading architecture, technical delivery and engineering standards for a pod or platform area, with hands-on depth across backend, frontend and cloud-native systems.

What you'll do

• Lead architecture and technical design for a platform area or major feature set, ensuring alignment with enterprise engineering standards and target-state architecture.
• Own technical delivery commitments for the pod, balancing scope, quality, timelines, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
• Define and enforce engineering standards across the pod for design reviews, coding practices, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation.
• Design and oversee implementation of backend services, frontend applications, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns across the stack.
• Guide engineering decisions on microservices, low-latency design, resilience, scalability, API contracts, and cloud-native deployment models.
• Partner with Product Owners and Architects to translate roadmap priorities into executable technical plans and delivery milestones.
• Review solution designs and code across the pod to ensure consistency, performance, and compliance with engineering guardrails.
• Drive production excellence through strong practices in monitoring, alerting, release management, incident handling, and post-incident improvement.
• Coach and develop Officers and Senior Associates through technical mentoring, design guidance, and delivery oversight.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development within the pod.
• Represent the pod in cross-functional technical reviews, design forums, and architecture governance discussions.
• Promote reuse and standardization by identifying opportunities to build shared libraries, patterns, templates, and engineering accelerators.
• Contribute to platform modernization, developer experience improvements, and engineering efficiency initiatives.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8–14 years of experience in full-stack or enterprise software engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Deep expertise in Python and/or Java, and modern frontend frameworks such as React and/or Angular.
• Strong experience designing and operating enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications on AWS and/or Azure.
• Proven experience with microservices architecture, API design, distributed systems, and high-availability/low-latency platforms.
• Strong track record of owning production systems at scale, including responsibility for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Experience leading a pod, team, or major technical workstream, including technical direction, mentoring, and delivery management.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, containers, Kubernetes, observability, and secure software delivery practices.
• Experience with database design, performance optimization, integration patterns, and enterprise system interoperability.
• Ability to influence technical decisions across product, engineering, and architecture stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical designs and trade-offs clearly.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and asynchronous processing at scale.
• Experience integrating GenAI/LLM-powered capabilities into enterprise applications.
• Cloud certifications in AWS and/or Azure.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work schedule: On-premise.