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 methodolog y which involves regular communication with your team and the teams around you.

• F ollow 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.

Client-provided location(s): Melbourne, Australia

Job ID: Vanguard-170726

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-02T20:24:49