Vanguard

Senior Backend API Engineers

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23 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, maintain, and operate scalable GraphQL and REST APIs, cloud-native microservices, API contracts, integrations, and reusable backend services.
  • Build MCP servers, SDKs, libraries, developer enablement tools, and platforms supporting digital, AI, analytics, and data-product initiatives.
  • Implement secure APIs using OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect, and enterprise security standards.
  • Develop event-driven and asynchronous processing solutions and optimize service performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency.
  • Implement observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting using Splunk, PagerDuty, Honeycomb, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Support CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, automated testing, architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards.
  • Integrate backend services with Databricks, AWS Redshift, AWS Glue, and other cloud data platforms.
  • Support data-pipeline development, data movement, data modeling, real-time and batch data access, data quality, metadata, and governance integration.
  • Collaborate with product owners, architects, engineering teams, and data engineers to establish enterprise integration and platform standards.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of relevant work experience, including at least 4 years designing and maintaining data pipelines, ETL processes, and database architectures.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
  • Advanced hands-on proficiency with TypeScript and experience with Node.js and modern backend frameworks.
  • Experience designing and developing GraphQL and REST APIs, MCP servers, enterprise-scale API platforms, and microservices.
  • Knowledge of API gateways, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT authentication, event-driven architecture, messaging systems, Git, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, and preferably Terraform.
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks, quality engineering, observability, monitoring, logging, and Splunk.
  • Experience with data pipelines, data modeling, Databricks, AWS Redshift, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, and real-time and batch data processing.
  • Preferred experience includes supporting AI and machine-learning solutions, agentic AI, AI-assisted development workflows, regulated enterprise environments, and high-volume production systems.

Benefits

  • Vanguard provides financial, physical, and personal wellness support through its Total Rewards programs.
  • The role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, and follows Vanguard's hybrid working model for most employees.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache SparkAWSDatabricksGitGraphQLNode.jsSplunkTerraformTypeScript

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Vanguard

10,000+ employees

Vanguard is an investment management company offering low-cost index and active mutual funds, ETFs, brokerage, retirement plans, and financial advice for individual, institutional, and advisor clients. Founded in 1975 by John C. Bogle and headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, it operates a client-owned structure in which its funds own the firm. Its business model centers on asset-based management and advisory fees.

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