Application Engineer - III

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.

• 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 (Open Telemetry, Honeycomb, Splunk) to ensure production health visibility
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation, ECS, Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, and related services
• Engage in on-call rotations and incident response, supporting Pager Duty alerts and driving rapid resolution
• Champion operational excellence — from branching strategies and PR hygiene to synthetics monitoring and caching strategies

• Frontend:
  Angular, Stencil, React
• Backend:
  Node.js, REST APIs
• Cloud (AWS):
  Cloud formation, ECS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Caching strategies, S3, IAM, Synthetics
• Operations:
  Git Hub (PRs, code reviews, branching strategies), CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy automation)
• Site Reliability & Observability:
  Splunk, Honeycomb, Open Telemetry

• Experience building micro-frontend architectures in a large-scale enterprise environment
• Experience with Graph
  
  QL and Super Graph
• Familiarity with wealth management or investment domain concepts

• 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, Cloud Formation, ECS, Fargate, Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, Lambda, IAM, SQL queries, Git Hub, 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.

Sponsorship: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.