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**Application Engineer III - Vanguard Wealth Management** Lead full-stack development for Vanguard's investment income/distribution platform. owning end-to-end feature development, from Angular-based micro-frontends to Node.js APIs. Collaborate with product/UX, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, manage AWS infrastructure, and ensure operational excellence. Requires 5+ years in software development, expertise in Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Node.js, AWS, and GitHub. Familiarity with wealth management concepts a plus. Vanguard offers hybrid work model. No visa sponsorship available.
- Compensation
- Not specified USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- United States
Currency: $ (USD)
Full 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.
- Bachelors degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, or a Masters 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 missionwe'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.




