Application Engineer

Vanguard Australia has been helping investors achieve their long-term financial goals for over 25 years. Serving institutional and individual clients, and financial advisers, we offer investment solutions that are low-cost, diversified and robust through time.

With more than AUD $11 trillion in assets under management Vanguard is one of the world's largest global investment management companies. In Australia we partner with institutional clients, financial advisers and individual investors to offer low-cost investment solutions. Our comprehensive range of managed funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and tailored investment solutions are built to support long-term investment success for our clients.

Our team and Opportunity

The Financial Adviser Services (FAS) & Marketing Technology, APAC team is responsible for:

Being the in-region technology team with deep expertise to develop and maintain our public facing websites to provide the ultimate client experience.
Building a digital technology ecosystem to help advisers scale and service their clients directly with Vanguard.
Through application of Marketing Technology (MarTech) and interconnected data, creating personalised client experience.
Providing data engineering capabilities aligned with our analytics and insights teams;

As a Public Web Application Engineer, you will partner with Marketing and Global Stakeholders to lead development of new digital and technology solutions primarily focusing on web and content. This role will aide in the creation of new, and uplift of existing, websites across Superannuation, Retail & Financial Advisers, whilst learning, embracing and implementing new technology platforms.

At Vanguard, we are passionate about your career, with a constant focus on development opportunities and personal growth, we are driven to ensure you, and in turn our clients, achieve success.

What You Will Do

Design, develop, and implement public facing web solutions
Translate visual design and technical specifications, into code for new or enhancement projects
Support the complete software life cycle including DevOps and CI/CD
Identify issues through Agile methodologies
Provides leadership and guidance to the continuous improvement of the development and support process
Maintain a high standard of coding, documentation, develop automated tests using TDD and participate in code review

Core Technical Skills

Minimum 5 years of experience as an Application Engineer
Solid and demonstrable front-end experience with Angular (Angular 10+), Node.js, HTML5
Experience with developing design systems and component libraries (HTML/CSS, Styled components, Stencil.js, Storybook)
Experience with state management using Redux or NgRx
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with back-end service integration using Nest.js or Express
Experience with monorepo tools for multiple project/websites development using NX.dev or Lerna
Experience with test automation and test-driven development practices and frameworks - mutation testing, functional testing (Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Cucumber), mock frameworks (Mockito, etc.), contract testing
Experience with Java
Familiarity with DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines - Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, GIT, etc...
Familiarity of Site Reliability Engineering concepts
Knowledge of cloud/AWS development/engineering best practices is a plus
Knowledge of cloud data stores is a plus - S3, Dynamo DB and/or Amazon RDS

Specializations that'll make an impact

Content Management Systems (AEM)
Analytics & Tag Management (Adobe)
SEO principles
Proficiency and passionate about modern UX/UI principles and be able to effectively communicate this in all designs and development
Experience with Data Analytics and Data Engineering (nice to have)
Experience with Spring Boot as well as designing & building REST API's

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.