Application Engineer - III

Dexter is Vanguard's developer automation platform that transforms infrastructure provisioning and internal IT processes into a streamlined, almost alchemical experience. It empowers engineers to spin up AWS resources with impressive speed, embrace modern serverless patterns, and stay flawlessly aligned with security and best practice guardrails-all through finely tuned automated workflows and integrations. Come join Dexter's lab and help us improve the developer experience at Vanguard. Role Summary As a Developer on the Dexter team, you'll build and enhance platform capabilities that make infrastructure automation faster, safer, and easier for Vanguard developers. This includes improving workflows, integrating new AWS/serverless features, and ensuring compliance through automated updates. With your help, the Dexter team will increase developer productivity, reduce developer cognitive load, and enable rapid adoption of enterprise initiatives., * Participate in ongoing development and enhancement of Dexter's user interface (Angular/HTML/CSS), command line interface, and/or automation workflows.

• Develop and maintain automation workflows and supporting services for Dexter.
• Integrate new AWS and serverless capabilities into the platform.
• Implement capabilities supporting enterprise initiatives as they arise.
• Enhance update and compliance mechanisms (e.g., automated pull requests, CloudFormation templates).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve onboarding and usability.
• Mentoring more junior team members.
• Contribute to resiliency features like multi-region routing and secure hosting patterns.

• Strong programming skills in node.js and TypeScript, and familiarity with YAML.
• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, IAM) and CloudFormation.
• Experience developing web-based applications, with tools like Angular or React, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Understanding of serverless architectures and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot automation and infrastructure provisioning tools.
• Knowledge of platform engineering and developer productivity tooling.
• Familiarity with multi-region deployments and resiliency patterns.
• Minimum of three years related work experience, with at least one year of development experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

Special Factors

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.