Application Engineer - II

Software Engineering & Technical Skills

• Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Java.
• Preferably a full-stack engineer who is 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.

Application Development

• 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.

Collaboration & Delivery

• 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.

Professional Skills

• 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.

Desired Qualifications

Minimum 3+ years of software engineering, application development, or systems analysis experience. Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience is expected. Experience in retirement, financial services, participant-facing applications, or regulated technology environments is a plus.

Technical Skills Summary

Core/Required

• Angular; TypeScript; Node.js; Java; REST APIs; SQL; Git/GitHub; CI/CD; automated testing; Agile/Scrum; Jira; Confluence; Secure SDLC

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

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourn