Application Engineer - II

Join Vanguard’s Client Experience teams as an early to mid-level engineer, where you’ll help shape how clients interact with our technology—including platforms like Adviser+, which empowers financial advisers to manage their business directly with Vanguard.

We’re a collaborative group focused on building intuitive, impactful digital experiences. You’ll work in Agile teams, contribute to full-stack development, and grow your skills in technologies like Java, Angular, Node.js, Spring, AWS, and more.

This is a great opportunity to launch your engineering career in a supportive, forward-thinking environment that values innovation, learning, and teamwork.

What you will do 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. 
• Work in an Agile software development methodology which involves regular communication with your team and the teams around you. 
• Follow architectural and coding standards to maintain a high standard of technical design, code quality and documentation. 
• Translate technical specifications into clean, maintainable code for new features, enhancements and integration with third-party products and APIs. 
• Participate in design and code reviews, unit and integration testing and defect resolution throughout the software development lifecycle. 
• Implement automated test strategies to ensure product quality. 
• Manage code deployment across development, test and production environments.  
• Proactively communicate technical issues with your team and technical lead. 
• Trouble shoot production incidents with the support team. 
• Secure coding practices using OWASP. 
• Technologies you will use (but do not need to have done them all!) 
• Full stack development – work with Java, Angular, Node.js, Spring, APIs, SQL and Non-SQL DBs, AWS and some react native. 
• AWS – familiarity with serverless stack 
• DevOps practices and continuous delivery using GIT and GitHub actions for CI/CD 
• Test automation and test-driven development practices and frameworks – work with Cypress, Playwright and Jest. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years related work experience with at least one year of development experience. More experience expected for those applying for a senior role to demonstrate a breadth of experience that you can apply to this role. 
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. 

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.