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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.\nVanguard India\nVanguard’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.\nRole Summary\nThe Application Engineer III is responsible for the design, development, integration, and implementation of scalable full-stack applications and cloud-based solutions. The role requires strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, AWS, modern front-end technologies, APIs, databases, CI/CD, and application observability, with working knowledge of Python to support modernization initiatives.\nThe engineer will contribute across the application lifecycle, including solution design, development, testing, deployment, production support, performance optimization, security, and technical documentation.\nResponsibilities\nProvide advanced-level analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of scalable applications and services.\nDesign and develop robust backend solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, JPA, Node.js, and NestJS.\nDevelop and integrate APIs and distributed services using REST, GraphQL, and Apollo Federation, ensuring performance, scalability, and security.\nBuild and support modern front-end applications using TypeScript, React, Angular, Single-SPA micro-frontends, HTML5, and SCSS.\nDesign, develop, and deploy cloud-based solutions on AWS, leveraging appropriate compute, storage, integration, messaging, and monitoring services.\nIntegrate applications with relational, NoSQL, caching, and messaging platforms while ensuring reliable and efficient data flow.\nImplement application security and access controls using technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Spring Security, IAM, and Kong.\nDevelop automated unit and integration tests and contribute to high-quality engineering practices using Jest, React Testing Library, Jasmine, JUnit 5, and Mockito.\nBuild and maintain automated CI/CD processes using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle, and Maven and support deployments across application environments.\nMonitor application health and troubleshoot performance and production issues using Honeycomb, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, dashboards, and alerting, while collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and mentoring less-experienced developers.\n\nQualifications and Skills\nMinimum 5 years of experience in software development, system integration, database design, and back-end architecture.\nBachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.\nStrong expertise in Java is required, with hands-on experience in Spring Boot, Spring Security, JPA, and enterprise application development.\nStrong AWS experience is required, including experience with services such as ECS, EC2, ALB, Route 53, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch. Azure exposure is beneficial but not required.\nWorking knowledge of Python, particularly for application modernization, automation, or integration use cases.\nExperience with modern front-end development using TypeScript, React, Angular, Single-SPA, HTML5, and SCSS.\nExperience with Node.js, NestJS, REST APIs, GraphQL, and Apollo Federation, including API integration and distributed application architectures.\nExperience with data and messaging technologies such as DB2, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Apache Kafka, and Qlik.\nStrong knowledge of automated testing frameworks including Jest, React Testing Library, Jasmine, JUnit 5, and Mockito, along with CI/CD and container technologies including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle, and Maven.\nExperience with OAuth 2.0, Spring Security, Kong, application security practices, and observability solutions such as Honeycomb, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch.\nFamiliarity with development and collaboration tools such as Jira, IntelliJ IDEA, Spring Tool Suite (STS), VS Code, Xcode, and Azure DevOps, with strong communication and collaboration skills.\nLocation\nThis role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.\nOur mission\nVanguard 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.\nOur commitment to you\nVanguard 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:\nFinancial wellness\nWe're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.\nPhysical wellness\nWe're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.\nPersonal wellness\nWe're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.\nHow we work\nVanguard 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. 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