Website Engineer, Vice President

Guggenheim Investments•Chicago, IL

1d•$160,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Website Engineer, Vice President is a senior-level independent contributor and site owner for the firm’s recently launched intranet and extranet properties. The role owns the full web stack—including presentation, application, and integration layers—to keep these digital properties stable, secure, performant, accessible, and continuously evolving. The engineer debugs existing sites, develops enhancements and new modules, and leads large, complex projects from intake through release. The role may also review and guide junior engineers’ routine programming work. The position collaborates with Design, Content, Branding, Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to deliver maintainable web experiences aligned with brand standards and product requirements. Work includes agile planning and release tracking with Jira, implementing engineering best practices, connecting front-end interfaces with back-end systems and third-party services, and meeting applicable financial-services compliance and accessibility requirements. The role is based in the firm’s Chicago office.

Requirements

Around 8–10+ years of experience building and optimizing large web applications using React or similar frameworks and integrating with content management platforms such as WordPress.
Proven track record improving real-user performance metrics at scale, including page load and post-load interactivity.
Strength with modern bundling and build tooling such as Webpack and performance profiling.
Experience with Azure and DevOps deployments.
Strong systems thinking and ability to design paved-road abstractions, guardrails, and tooling for many teams.
Excellent collaboration and communication across platform and product teams, with a bias toward iterative, measurable impact.
Curiosity and willingness to adopt AI tools to work more effectively; AI expertise is not required.
Authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship or transfer.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a fast-paced environment with frequent code deployments.
Proficiency in C#.
Experience with Angular.
Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices.
Proficiency in Figma.
Familiarity with modern tools and developer workflows such as Cursor and Vercel.
Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance.
Willingness to work in person at the office 4–5 days a week.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the firm's intranet and extranet across presentation, application, and integration layers, ensuring stability, performance, security, and ongoing feature delivery.
Debug existing web properties, program enhancements, and develop new modules and features for web applications used by clients, prospects, and employees.
Lead large and complex projects, potentially spanning multiple phases or workstreams, from intake through successful implementation and release.
Review and guide junior engineers’ work on routine programming tasks when needed.
Partner with Design, Content, and Branding teams to translate visual designs, editorial requirements, and brand standards into accessible, performant, maintainable web experiences consistent with GI branding guidelines.
Partner with Product Owners to refine requirements, estimate work, and deliver features through agile workflows using Jira for backlog management, sprint planning, and release tracking.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, designers, content authors, product owners, scrum masters, and fellow engineers.
Independently plan and execute projects from intake through release with directional guidance from the work team, manager, IT leadership, or business leadership.
Apply best practices for code quality, version control, testing, deployment, and site reliability.
Solve complex or non-standard challenges, assess potential impacts, and deliver solutions using best practices and standards.
Build interactive web interfaces from wireframes and design mockups.
Connect front-end interfaces with back-end databases, content management systems, servers, and third-party services.
Apply compliance requirements within the role’s scope and provide documentation as directed by the Compliance department.
Maintain quality control of public-facing web content and functionality in accordance with marketing-compliance review processes and applicable financial-services regulatory requirements, including FINRA and SEC standards.
Ensure web properties meet WCAG 2.1 AA and applicable ADA accessibility requirements.