Full Stack Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure, scalable full-stack applications using React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Java, REST APIs, microservices, and relational databases.

• Translate business and technical requirements into maintainable application designs, reusable components, and production-ready code.

• Develop and integrate APIs, identity services, third-party products, and other enterprise solutions, applying effective authentication, error-handling, monitoring, and resiliency practices.

• Contribute directly to coding, debugging, automated testing, code reviews, and technical problem-solving across the application stack.

• Use Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, and secure coding practices to deliver software across development, test, and production environments.

• Diagnose and resolve production issues through monitoring, debugging, and root cause analysis, while improving application performance, reliability, and supportability.

• Participate in solution design and technical decision-making, ensuring applications meet architecture, security, quality, accessibility, and maintainability standards.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, engineering, and business partners to deliver solutions and communicate technical decisions, risks, and dependencies.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship while remaining actively involved in hands-on development and continuous improvement.

• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience, including significant hands-on application development experience supporting complex enterprise applications.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

• Hands-on experience building modern web applications using React and TypeScript or JavaScript, including component development, state management, API integration, and testing.

• Back-end development experience using Java or a comparable object-oriented programming language.

• Experience implementing REST APIs or microservices integrations, including authentication, error handling, testing, monitoring, and resiliency.

• Experience developing or supporting applications in AWS or another enterprise cloud environment.

• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, secure coding practices, and deployment processes.

• Experience supporting production applications, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and improvements to performance, resiliency, and reliability.

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical work, explain individual contributions and technical decisions, and collaborate across engineering, product, architecture, security, and business teams.

Preferred technical skills

• Experience with identity and access management technologies and standards, including single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML.

• Experience applying AI-enabled engineering tools and practices to improve development speed, code quality, testing, and documentation.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

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.