Application Engineer - II

The Vanguard Group•Malvern, PA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

Vanguard is seeking an Application Engineer II to join their team. This role focuses on designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting modern web applications, with an emphasis on Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java. The engineer will translate requirements into scalable and maintainable software solutions, contribute to application architecture, and participate in code reviews. Responsibilities include developing and supporting APIs, backend services, and integrations, as well as contributing to modernization efforts and supporting application performance and reliability. The role involves working within Agile product teams, collaborating with various stakeholders, and contributing to operational support and continuous improvement. Strong problem-solving, communication, and ownership skills are essential, along with a continuous improvement and production-support mindset. Eagerness to learn new technologies is also valued.

Requirements

Minimum 3+ years of software engineering, application development, or systems analysis experience.
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.
REST APIs
SQL
Agile/Scrum
Jira
Confluence
Secure SDLC

Nice To Haves

Experience in retirement, financial services, participant-facing applications, or regulated technology environments is a plus.
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.
Experience working within Agile product teams.
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.
Ability to work effectively both independently and within cross-functional teams.
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.