We are seeking a Senior Developer to join the 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. 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.

Key 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

Required Skills & Experience

Frontend: Angular, Stencil, React

Backend: Node.js, REST APIs

Cloud (AWS): Cloudformation, ECS, DynamoDB, Caching strategies, S3, IAM, Synthetics

Operations: GitHub (PRs, code reviews, branching strategies), CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deploy automation)

Site Reliability & Observability: Splunk, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry

Nice to Have

Experience building micro-frontend architectures in a large-scale enterprise environment
Experience with GraphQL and SuperGraph
Familiarity with wealth management or investment domain concepts

Qualifications And Skills

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.
AWS Cloud Practitioner certification preferred.

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 Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

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.

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