Investment Systems Application Engineer - IV

Vanguard is a leading investment management company dedicated to the long-term financial wellbeing of its clients. They are seeking a full-stack engineer with strong UI specialization to build modern user interfaces for investment workflows, ensuring performance and usability across applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build modern, responsive user interfaces for investment workflows
• Develop rich, data‑driven applications supporting portfolio analysis and operations
• Create reusable UI components and design patterns
• Develop end‑to‑end features spanning UI, APIs, and backend services
• Provides expert level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of investment applications and databases
• Integrates third party products. Ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved
• Ensure performance, scalability, and usability across applications
• Partner with business stakeholders (PMs, Ops, Research) to translate requirements into user‑centric designs
• Thoroughly understands client investment business functions and technology needs
• Improve usability and efficiency of workflows replacing legacy/manual processes
• Support iterative development and continuous feedback loops
• Build applications deployed on AWS using modern CI/CD practices
• Ensure code quality, testing, and maintainability
• Contribute to architectural discussions and UI platform evolution
• Is well versed on the latest technologies and tools supporting software development in the industry
• Ensures the viability of investment systems IT deliverables. Conducts testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security
• Elevates code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provides follow up production support
• Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout the life cycle to identify issues. Explains technical considerations at related meetings, including those with internal clients. Performs systems analysis activities
• Develops broad and deep understanding of Vanguard’s technologies, tools, and applications, including those that interface with business area and systems
• Complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned