Application Engineer - II

About this role

Software Engineering & Technical Skills • Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java. • Preferably a full-stack engineer who is comfortable working across both UI and backend services. • Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting applications throughout the software development lifecycle. • Strong proficiency with distributed version control systems, including Git and GitHub. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. • Understanding of automated testing strategies and quality engineering practices. • Familiarity with observability concepts, including logging, metrics, tracing, production monitoring, dashboards, and alerting. • Knowledge of Secure SDLC principles, secure coding practices, and data protection expectations. • Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, testing, and production environments, including AWS-hosted applications and legacy system integrations. • Experience or interest in SRE practices, including SLOs, operational readiness, resiliency testing, runbooks, and incident response.

Application Development • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support modern web applications, with an emphasis on Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java. • Translate functional and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable, and reliable software solutions. • Contribute to application architecture, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices. • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers. • Develop and support APIs, backend services, and integrations with third-party and enterprise platforms. • Contribute to modernization efforts that replace legacy systems and migrate business capabilities to modern architectures. • Support application performance, reliability, and operational maturity through thoughtful design, testing, and observability practices.

Collaboration & Delivery • Experience working within Agile product teams. • Collaborate effectively with product owners, engineers, architects, testers, and business partners to deliver high-value solutions. • Contribute to operational support, incident management, and continuous improvement efforts. • Ability to work effectively both independently and within cross-functional teams. • Partner with support, platform, architecture, and operations teams to improve application reliability, availability, and production readiness. • Participate in planning, refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release activities, resiliency exercises, game days, and post-release validation. • Create and maintain operational documentation, troubleshooting guides, support procedures, and production runbooks.

Professional Skills • Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities. • Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and follow-through. • Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to build effective partnerships across teams and contribute to shared outcomes. • Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities. • Eagerness to learn new technologies and continuously expand technical expertise. • Production-support mindset with the ability to remain focused, organized, and client-centered when resolving operational issues. • Continuous improvement mindset with a willingness to strengthen processes, observability, quality, and reliability over time.

Desired Qualifications Minimum 3+ years of software engineering, application development, or systems analysis experience. Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience is expected. Experience in retirement, financial services, participant-facing applications, or regulated technology environments is a plus.

Technical Skills Summary Core/Required • Angular; TypeScript; Node.js; Java; REST APIs; SQL; Git/GitHub; CI/CD; automated testing; Agile/Scrum; Jira; Confluence; Secure SDLC

Preferred • AWS; observability platforms; logging, metrics, and tracing; Splunk; Honeycomb; PagerDuty; Medallia DXA; SRE practices; SLOs; runbooks; resiliency testing; disaster recovery/game days; legacy modernization

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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