Application Engineer - III

Title: Application Engineer - III

Location: Malvern, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Job Description:

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 (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.