Senior Application Engineer - API & AI Platforms

Vanguard Australia; Victoria; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Australia is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build and optimize backend services and APIs across multiple languages, including Node.js, TypeScript and Java. You will contribute to front-end apps using React and engage in modern cloud and DevSecOps practices.

This role emphasizes collaboration with global teams, architecture planning, performance improvements, and mentoring. Experience with AI tooling and distributed systems is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Strong investment management knowledge - FX, derivatives, portfolio management, and asset management.
• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing backend services and APIs.
• Front-end experience with React and a legacy Java RPC thick client.
• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, and modern development practices.
• Ability to mentor, lead solution designs, and drive architectural decisions.
• Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident resolution skills.
• Experience with AI tooling, LLM-based agent frameworks, and automation testing.
• Collaborate with global teams across the US and UK to deliver complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize backend services and APIs.
• Develop and maintain front-end applications using React.
• Contribute to architecture planning and technical decisions.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and resolve incidents.
• Drive automation testing and support cross-story testing.
• Collaborate with engineers across global teams on complex solutions.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

APIs & microservices design

Front-end & back-end development

Global collaboration

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Java

Go

React

AWS

Docker

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

Vanguard Australia is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build and optimize backend services and APIs across multiple languages, including Node.js, TypeScript and Java. You will contribute to front-end apps using React and engage in modern cloud and DevSecOps practices.

This role emphasizes collaboration with global teams, architecture planning, performance improvements, and mentoring. Experience with AI tooling and distributed systems is highly valued.