About the Team
Join a team that develops innovative financial planning solutions used by financial professionals to help clients navigate important life and financial decisions. You'll work with cross-functional partners to build secure, scalable, and intuitive applications that support retirement planning, tax strategies, healthcare cost analysis, and other key financial planning needs. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by creating technology that helps deliver personalized financial guidance and a great user experience.
Core Responsibilities
Provides intermediate level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrates third party products.
Translates technical specifications into code for moderately complex new or enhancement projects for internal clients. Writes programs, develops code, tests artifacts, and produces reports. Employs software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that support automation.
Elevates code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provides follow up production support. Submits change control requests and documents.
Follows software development methodology. Follows development architecture standards.
Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout the life cycle to identify issues. Participates in systems analysis activities.
Understands client business functions and technology needs. Understands Vanguard's tools, technologies, and applications/databases, including those that interface with business area and systems.
Continuously explore and adopt AI-enabled engineering practices that improve planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational excellence across the product development lifecycle.
Learns and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Required Skills
Full-stack application development using Angular, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, or similar technologies.
Cloud-native engineering on AWS, including serverless and distributed application architectures.
API design and development, microservices, and enterprise application integration.
Modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, and production support.
Authentication and security patterns, including OAuth and secure application design.
Technical leadership in solution design, architecture, and software delivery best practices.
Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies) to improve software delivery, code quality, testing, documentation, and developer productivity.
Demonstrated ability to apply engineering judgment when using AI-generated outputs, including validating solutions, identifying risks, and maintaining secure, resilient, and well-architected systems.
Preferred Skills
Experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, ECS, and related cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Spring Boot, Python, and modern backend development frameworks.
Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), microfrontend architectures, and enterprise content management platforms.
Experience building analytics, financial planning, reporting, or advisor-facing applications.
Financial services domain knowledge and experience delivering client- or advisor-focused digital experiences.
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
- Minimum three years of related work experience
- At least one year of software development experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Full-stack application development experience using Angular, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, or similar technologies
- Cloud-native engineering experience on AWS, including serverless and distributed application architectures
- API design and development, microservices, and enterprise application integration experience
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, source control, and production support
- Knowledge of authentication and security patterns, including OAuth and secure application design
- Technical leadership in solution design, architecture, and software delivery best practices
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot
- Ability to validate AI-generated outputs, identify risks, and maintain secure, resilient, well-architected systems
- Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, ECS, and related cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Spring Boot, Python, and modern backend development frameworks
- Experience with Adobe Experience Manager, microfrontend architectures, and enterprise content management platforms
- Experience building analytics, financial planning, reporting, or advisor-facing applications
- Financial services domain knowledge and experience delivering client- or advisor-focused digital experiences
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.
