Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure, scalable full-stack applications using React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Java, REST APIs, microservices, and relational databases.
Translate business and technical requirements into maintainable application designs, reusable components, and production-ready code.
Develop and integrate APIs, identity services, third-party products, and other enterprise solutions, applying effective authentication, error-handling, monitoring, and resiliency practices.
Contribute directly to coding, debugging, automated testing, code reviews, and technical problem-solving across the application stack.
Use Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, and secure coding practices to deliver software across development, test, and production environments.
Diagnose and resolve production issues through monitoring, debugging, and root cause analysis, while improving application performance, reliability, and supportability.
Participate in solution design and technical decision-making, ensuring applications meet architecture, security, quality, accessibility, and maintainability standards.
Collaborate with product, architecture, security, engineering, and business partners to deliver solutions and communicate technical decisions, risks, and dependencies.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship while remaining actively involved in hands-on development and continuous improvement.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years of related work experience, including significant hands-on application development experience supporting complex enterprise applications.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Hands-on experience building modern web applications using React and TypeScript or JavaScript, including component development, state management, API integration, and testing.
Back-end development experience using Java or a comparable object-oriented programming language.
Experience implementing REST APIs or microservices integrations, including authentication, error handling, testing, monitoring, and resiliency.
Experience developing or supporting applications in AWS or another enterprise cloud environment.
Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, secure coding practices, and deployment processes.
Experience supporting production applications, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and improvements to performance, resiliency, and reliability.
Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical work, explain individual contributions and technical decisions, and collaborate across engineering, product, architecture, security, and business teams.
Preferred technical skills
Experience with identity and access management technologies and standards, including single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML.
Experience applying AI-enabled engineering tools and practices to improve development speed, code quality, testing, and documentation.
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
- Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
- At least 1 year of application development experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies and application architecture principles
- Experience analyzing, developing, testing, and supporting enterprise applications
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams
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.
