Application Engineering Technical Lead - II // Lead Full Stack Engineer
Core
Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, cloud-native applications and platform capabilities for Vanguard's investment management business.
Role type
Senior IC machine-learning engineer (audio)
Builds
Scalable applications, event-driven/serverless solutions, reusable platform capabilities, and shared services.
Domain
Financial services / Cloud-native engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Angular, AWS (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch), REST/GraphQL APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, production monitoring, observability.
Preferred skills
Python, experience in banking/financial services environments.
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Angular, TypeScript, AWS, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Splunk, Honeycomb.
Responsibilities
Lead 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.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC