Senior Full Stack Engineer

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you will drive innovation by building and owning scalable full stack solutions across modern web applications GraphQL enabled APIs and AWS hosted services that power retirement goal planning account aggregation and personalized financial guidance including AI-enabled experiences such as an AI-powered chat/virtual assistant.

Responsibilities:

• Design build and own endtoend full stack solutions supporting Financial WellBeing and retirement planning experiences at scale.
• Develop modern participant facing web applications alongside scalable backend services architected for cloud and distributed environments.
• Translate product vision and complex financial requirements into well architected secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Lead technical design and implementation balancing usability performance scalability and longterm sustainability.
• Integrate with internal platforms and thirdparty systems to enable account aggregation data enrichment and personalized financial guidance.
• Design and deliver AI-enabled features including conversational and decision support experiences (e.g. AI-powered chat).
• Apply RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) and related patterns to connect AI capabilities with trusted data sources APIs and knowledge bases.
• Implement appropriate AI governance and controls including prompt and data management access controls auditability and alignment with enterprise security privacy and responsible AI policies.
• Establish monitoring and observability for both traditional and AIenabled services to ensure reliability performance and continuous improvement.
• Own services and features endtoend from design and development through production support and continuous improvement.
• Leverage AIassisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code GitHub Copilot) and modern engineering practices to accelerate delivery improve code quality and reduce repetitive work.
• Partner closely with product managers designers and engineers to deliver intuitive highquality experiences with strong UI craftsmanship.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture through mentoring design and code reviews and raising the overall technical bar.

Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with modern web frameworks such as Angular or React using TypeScript/JavaScript HTML and CSS.
• Experience building APIdriven systems including REST and GraphQL with attention to schema design versioning and security.
• Handson experience developing and running applications on AWS with familiarity across compute storage networking and IAM.
• Solid foundation in cloudnative and distributed systems including performance resiliency and observability concepts.
• Proficiency with automated testing practices including TDD unit testing and integration/API testing.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into applications (e.g. chat summarization or decisionsupport features).
• Understanding of AI governance and responsibleAI practices including data handling access controls and security considerations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code GitHub-Copilot) and a strong desire to use them to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working in productcentric agile teams alongside product managers and designers.
• Minimum of five years related work experience with at least one year of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

Special Factors

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About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere 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.