Application Engineer III

We are seeking a Senior Application Engineer (Backend cloud based application development) with deep technical expertise and thought leadership. You will drive strategy for your area of expertise across teams and foster a developer community within your domain. The role involves mentoring junior staff ensuring high-quality deliverables promoting best practices like TDD and BDD and leading engineering practices across the SDLC.

In this role you will

Provide advanced technical expertise in Backend Development supporting the team with effective solutions and practical insights

Participate in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering development deployment and ongoing maintenance

Demonstrate a commitment to keeping up with industry trends emerging technologies and best practices actively applying them in your work

Contribute new ideas tools and methodologies to help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team

Share knowledge and mentor peers and junior engineers supporting their growth and skills development

Collaborate with technical leads IT teams and business stakeholders to understand project requirements implications and dependencies

Review and provide feedback on technical documentation suggesting improvements where appropriate

Promote and practice best development approaches such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to deliver high-quality maintainable code

Apply design patterns to address complex problems ensuring code is efficient readable and reusable

Adhere to IT and Information Security policies and procedures in all engineering activities

Participate in special projects and perform other related duties as assigned

What it takes

Preferred - Experience of building distributed scalable microservices using Java / Kotlin Spring Boot OAuth 2.0 Secure API design

Understanding of API design for mobile application with event driven architecture

Strong analysis and problem-solving skills

Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience

Knowledge of the financial services industry

Other technologies / areas : AWS API Design Automation testing

Special Factors

Vanguard is not offering sponsorship for this position

This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office Tuesday-Thursday

This role encompasses activities that fall within the remit of UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to UK regulatory requirements in relation to conduct rules regulatory references and the assessment of fitness and propriety knowledge experience and competence. Where appropriate the role may also be subject to approval by the UK FCA.

Why Vanguard

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea : that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.

This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost uncomplicated investments.

Its what we stand for : value to investors.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguards continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients crew (internally employees are referred to as crew) and communities is guided by one simple statement :
Do the right thing.

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse inclusive and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguards core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified and we are united in delivering on Vanguards core purpose : to take a stand for all investors to treat them fairly and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to equal employment opportunity

Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race color national origin or ancestry religion gender sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability marital status veteran or military addition Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information as well as any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment…