Vanguard

Application Engineer - III

Vanguard  •  Malvern, AR (Hybrid)  •  27 days ago
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Job Description

The Wealth Warriors team is a 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

We are seeking a Senior Developer to join the team. 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 (OpenTelemetry, 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 PagerDuty 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, OpenTelemetry

Nice to Have

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

- Experience with GraphQL and SuperGraph

- 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.

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About Vanguard

Join us as we celebrate 50 years of empowering our 50 million investor-owners.* Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission to help investors achieve their goals.

With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side.

We are a community that thinks—and feels—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Let’s celebrate 50 years together.

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*As of January 2025

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Valley Forge, PA
Year Founded
1975
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