This role provides intermediate-level application engineering, system analysis, design, development, implementation, and production support for Vanguard's retirement and participant experience platforms. The engineer contributes to modernization initiatives, cloud-native application development, UI and backend services, API integrations, observability, secure software delivery, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. This position plays a key role in modernizing retirement termination experiences and requires an engineer who can balance software development, production support, cloud operations, and reliability practices to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.
Core Responsibilities & Skills
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.
Qualifications
Minimum of three years related work experience, with at least one year of development experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
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.
Skills Required
- Experience with Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java
- Full-stack experience across UI and backend services
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support applications across the SDLC
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub (distributed version control)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Understanding of automated testing strategies and quality engineering
- Familiarity with observability (logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, dashboards, alerting)
- Knowledge of Secure SDLC principles and secure coding practices
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production, including AWS-hosted applications and legacy integrations
- Experience or interest in SRE practices (SLOs, operational readiness, runbooks, incident response)
- Experience working within Agile product teams and strong collaboration skills
- Minimum of three years related work experience, with at least one year of development experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
