Responsibilities
API and Backend Engineering (80%)
Design, develop, and maintain scalable GraphQL and REST APIs.
Build cloud-native microservices using TypeScript and modern backend frameworks.
Develop reusable backend services supporting digital, AI, analytics, and data-product initiatives.
Design and implement API contracts, versioning strategies, and service integrations.
Build MCP servers, consumable by AI Agents
Build secure APIs using OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect, and enterprise security standards.
Develop event-driven and asynchronous processing solutions.
Create reusable SDKs, libraries, and developer enablement tools.
Implement observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting using Splunk, PagerDuty, Honeycomb with OpenTelemetry.
Optimize service performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency.
Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering teams to define enterprise integration patterns.
Use Claude Code and similar AI coding tools to accelerate development, testing, documentation, and code quality.
Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards development.
Support CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices.
Data Engineering and Platform Integration (20%)
Develop API layers that expose trusted enterprise data products.
Integrate backend services with Databricks, AWS Redshift, and other cloud data platforms.
Support data-pipeline development and data-movement patterns.
Partner with data engineers to enable real-time and batch data access.
Contribute to logical and physical data modeling.
Support AWS Glue-based ingestion and transformation workflows.
Help establish standards for data quality, metadata, and governance integration.
Qualifications and Skills
Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience, with at least 4 years in designing and maintaining data pipelines, ETL processes and database architectures.
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science or IT, or Bachelor’s in Data Science, Statistics, or related field.
Backend and API Development
TypeScript: advanced hands-on proficiency
GraphQL API design and development
REST API design and development
MCP Server design and development
Node.js and modern backend frameworks
Microservices architecture
API gateway technologies
OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT authentication
CI/CD and DevOps practices
Git and modern source-control workflows
Claude Code
Splunk monitoring, logging, and observability
Event-driven architecture and messaging systems
Cloud and Platform Engineering
AWS cloud services
Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred
Automated testing frameworks and quality-engineering practices
Desired Data Engineering Skills
AWS
Data-pipeline development
Data modeling
Databricks
AWS Redshift
AWS Glue
Apache Spark
Data quality and governance
Real-time and batch data processing
Preferred Experience
Building enterprise-scale API platforms.
Developing backend services that support AI and machine-learning solutions.
Enabling agentic AI and AI-assisted development workflows.
Working in highly regulated enterprise environments.
Supporting mission-critical, high-volume production systems.
Building platforms that serve multiple engineering teams through reusable APIs and shared services.
Success Measures
Increased API reuse across engineering teams.
Reduced integration-development effort through standardized services.
Improved platform reliability, observability, and scalability.
Faster software delivery through AI-assisted development workflows.
Strong adoption of engineering standards, security controls, and API governance practices.
Reduced operational incidents through proactive monitoring and automated testing.
Location
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. 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.
