Application Engineer - II

Vanguard • Malvern, PA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role focuses on designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting modern web applications, with a strong emphasis on Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java. The engineer will translate requirements into scalable software solutions, contribute to application architecture, and participate in code reviews. The position involves developing and supporting APIs, backend services, and integrations, as well as contributing to modernization efforts to replace legacy systems. A key aspect of the role is supporting application performance, reliability, and operational maturity through thoughtful design, testing, and observability practices. Collaboration within Agile product teams is essential, working with product owners, engineers, architects, testers, and business partners to deliver high-value solutions. The role also includes contributing to operational support, incident management, and continuous improvement efforts, partnering with various teams to enhance application reliability and production readiness. Participation in planning, refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release activities, resiliency exercises, and creating/maintaining operational documentation are also expected.

Requirements

• Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java.
• Full-stack engineer 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.
• Experience working within Agile product teams.
• 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.
• Core/Required: Angular; TypeScript; Node.js; Java; REST APIs; SQL; Git/GitHub; CI/CD; automated testing; Agile/Scrum; Jira; Confluence; Secure SDLC

Nice To Haves

• Experience in retirement, financial services, participant-facing applications, or regulated technology environments is a plus.
• Preferred: AWS; observability platforms; logging, metrics, and tracing; Splunk; Honeycomb; PagerDuty; Medallia DXA; SRE practices; SLOs; runbooks; resiliency testing; disaster recovery/game days; legacy modernization

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree