Senior Application Engineer

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Application Engineer to lead the design and implementation of complex application features and systems. This senior role involves owning significant application areas, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers while delivering high-impact solutions for financial advisors. You'll work at the intersection of technical excellence and business impact, ensuring our applications are scalable, secure, and user-friendly.

This role is based in Hyderabad and follows a hybrid work model. You will collaborate with colleagues across India and the United States, with reasonable working-hour overlap when needed for team ceremonies, planning, and delivery. This is an excellent change to be part of building a new Global Capability Center and shaping an engineering and product culture based on deep partnership and ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Design and implement complex features and application systems end-to-end
• Contribute significantly to architectural decisions for application development
• Drive AssetMark towards target architecture through thoughtful implementation choices
• Evaluate and recommend technical approaches for complex application challenges
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in application systems

Advanced Development & Quality

• Create reusable patterns and components that benefit the entire application development team
• Balance technical debt with feature development alongside secure coding and design library adoption
• Improve development practices and processes, both for squad and across squads
• Ensure code quality through comprehensive reviews and established standards
• Use knowledge of systems and dependencies to bring resolution to incidents/outages

Process & Team Leadership

• Lead execution of complex features across multiple development cycles
• Implement process improvements that enhance team productivity and code quality
• Coordinate work across multiple developers and resolve technical blockers
• Run agile ceremonies for the team and train others on effective practices
• Balance quality with delivery timelines while maintaining technical excellence

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers on technical skills and application development best practices
• Translate business needs into technical solutions in partnership with product managers
• Communicate technical constraints constructively to stakeholders
• Represent engineering in cross-functional meetings and strategic discussions
• Serve as trusted partner for information security and compliance teams

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Deep expertise in application development with modern frameworks and technologies
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, microservices, and API design
• Experience with React, NodeJS, C# and/or Java and REST services with JSON payloads is a plus
• Experience with performance optimization, scalability, and system reliability
• Advanced knowledge of database design, optimization, and data modeling
• Expertise in cloud-native development and DevOps practices
• Understanding of security best practices for financial services applications
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions and influence architectural direction
• Strong mentorship and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid, globally distributed engineering organization and communicate across technical and business teams

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
• 5-8 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• Experience leading complex application development projects
• Track record of mentoring junior engineers and improving team processes
• Experience with wealth management, fintech, or regulated industry applications preferred

Strong background in agile development and cross-functional collaboration