Application Engineer - III

Vanguard • Malvern, PA

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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, CloudFormation, ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, IAM, SQL queries, GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, CI/CD, TDD/BDD, Splunk, Honeycomb, Python.
• Knowledge of Agile, Confluence, JIRA; aptitude for continuous process improvement for process flows/workflows.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building micro-frontend architectures in a large-scale enterprise environment
• Experience with GraphQL and SuperGraph
• Familiarity with wealth management or investment domain concepts
• AWS Cloud Practitioner certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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 (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Splunk) to ensure production health visibility
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, and related services
• Engage in on-call rotations and incident response, supporting PagerDuty alerts and driving rapid resolution
• Champion operational excellence — from branching strategies and PR hygiene to synthetics monitoring and caching strategies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees