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Senior Full Stack Developer

VanguardPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania🇺🇸United StatesPosted 11 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Senior Full Stack Developer role at Vanguard offers significant opportunities for professional growth and the chance to contribute to impactful technology solutions within a reputable financial services leader. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned developer eager to mentor others, tackle complex projects, and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work environment. Apply now to leverage your expertise and advance your career in a dynamic setting.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Job Description

hackajob is collaborating with Vanguard to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Provides advanced level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases, under general direction.

Core Responsibilities

1. Provides senior level system analysis, design, development, and implementation of applications and databases. Integrates third party products.

2. Translates technical specifications into code for complex new or enhancement projects for internal clients. Writes programs, develops code, tests artifacts, and produces reports. Employs software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that support automation.

3. Elevates code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provides follow up production support. Submits change control requests and documents.

4. Thoroughly understands software development methodology. Thoroughly understands development architecture standards. Trains and mentors staff with less experience. Resolves elevated issues.

5. 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.

6. Thoroughly understands client business functions and technology needs. Has a broad understanding of Vanguard?s technologies, tools, and applications, including those that interface with business area and systems.

7. Interfaces with cross functional team members, and communicates systems issues at the appropriate technical level for each audience.

8. Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.

9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of five years related work experience, with at least one year of development experience.

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

  • Knowledge of Agile, Confluence, JIRA; aptitude for continuous process improvement for process flows/workflows.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.

  • Expertise in UI Development, server-side development, system integration, and API management; optimization, debugging, and performance tuning.

  • Must-have skills: Angular, Node JS, Typescript, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Github, CI/CD, TDD/BDD, AWS, CloudFormation, ECS, Fargate, S3, Lambda, IAM, SNS, SQS, Kafka

  • Nice-to have skills:

  • Github Workflow, DynamoDB, Splunk, Honeycomb, Stencil, AWS Bedrock, Arize, Claude

  • Experience mentoring engineers, whether formal or informal, is welcomed though not required. This may include onboarding new hires, leading knowledge-sharing sessions, or acting as a technical resource for the team.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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.

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