Full Stack Engineer - Assistant Vice President

AVP – Full Stack Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with deep expertise in enterprise software engineering, low-latency systems, and cloud-native architecture. The ideal candidate brings strong technical leadership across the stack and the ability to lead architecture and execution for a pod or platform area.

As an AVP, you will define technical direction for major features or modules, establish engineering standards across the pod, and own technical delivery commitments. You will work closely with Product Owners, Architects, platform teams, and engineering leaders to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with broader platform strategy. This role is suited for a senior technologist who balances hands-on depth with delivery leadership, coaching, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and asynchronous processing at scale.
• Experience integrating GenAI/LLM-powered capabilities into enterprise applications is a plus.
• Cloud certifications in AWS and/or Azure are a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical designs and trade-offs clearly.

Work Schedule

On-premise

Keywords

Full Stack Engineering, Technical Leadership, Java, Python, React, Angular, Cloud-Native Architecture, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Microservices, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Enterprise Platforms, Low-Latency Systems, Engineering Standards, Observability, API Integration, Delivery Leadership, Scalable Systems

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