Application Engineer - III at Vanguard

We are seeking a Senior Developer to join the product engineering team within Vanguard's Wealth Management digital experience organization. The team owns and evolves client-facing investment income and distribution capabilities on Vanguard's secure site. In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of features — from building rich Angular-based micro-frontends to designing resilient Node.js APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain features spanning micro-frontend UIs and backend services supporting investment income and distribution products

• Collaborate with product and UX partners to translate client needs into technical solutions that are accessible, performant, and reliable

• Participate actively in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and uphold team engineering standards

• Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, and deployment automation

• Instrument services with observability tooling (Open Telemetry, Honeycomb, Splunk) to ensure production health visibility

• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, and related services

• Engage in on-call rotations and incident response, supporting Pager Duty alerts and driving rapid resolution

• Champion operational excellence — from branching strategies and PR hygiene to synthetics monitoring and caching strategies

Required Skills & Experience

Frontend: Angular, Stencil, React

Backend: Node.js, REST APIs

Cloud (AWS): Cloudformation, ECS, DynamoDB, Caching strategies, S3, IAM, Synthetics

Operations: GitHub (PRs, code reviews, branching strategies), CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy automation)

Site Reliability & Observability: Splunk, Honeycomb, Open Telemetry

Nice to Have

• Experience building micro-frontend architectures in a large-scale enterprise environment

• Experience with Graph

QL and Super Graph:

• Familiarity with wealth management or investment domain concepts

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development, system integration, database design, and back-end architecture.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.

• Expertise in server-side development, system integration, and API management; strong knowledge of database design, optimization, debugging, and performance tuning.

• Must-have skills: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Node JS, AWS, CloudFormation, ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, IAM, SQL queries, GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, CI/CD, TDD/BDD, Splunk, Honeycomb, Python.

• Knowledge of Agile, Confluence, JIRA; aptitude for continuous process improvement for process flows/workflows.

• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification preferred.

Special Factors Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our 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.