Full Stack Software Engineer
About the job
- A minimum of 5 years of related work experience, including significant hands-on application development experience supporting complex enterprise applications.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Hands-on experience building modern web applications using React and TypeScript or JavaScript, including component development, state management, API integration, and testing.
- Back-end development experience using Java or a comparable object-oriented programming language.
- Experience implementing REST APIs or microservices integrations, including authentication, error handling, testing, monitoring, and resiliency.
- Experience developing or supporting applications in AWS or another enterprise cloud environment.
- Experience with Git, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, secure coding practices, and deployment processes.
- Experience supporting production applications, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and improvements to performance, resiliency, and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical work, explain individual contributions and technical decisions, and collaborate across engineering, product, architecture, security, and business teams.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure, scalable full-stack applications using React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Java, REST APIs, microservices, and relational databases.
- Translate business and technical requirements into maintainable application designs, reusable components, and production-ready code.
- Develop and integrate APIs, identity services, third-party products, and other enterprise solutions, applying effective authentication, error-handling, monitoring, and resiliency practices.
- Contribute directly to coding, debugging, automated testing, code reviews, and technical problem-solving across the application stack.
- Use Git, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated testing, code-quality tools, and secure coding practices to deliver software across development, test, and production environments.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues through monitoring, debugging, and root cause analysis, while improving application performance, reliability, and supportability.
- Participate in solution design and technical decision-making, ensuring applications meet architecture, security, quality, accessibility, and maintainability standards.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, security, engineering, and business partners to deliver solutions and communicate technical decisions, risks, and dependencies.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship while remaining actively involved in hands-on development and continuous improvement.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
- Experience with identity and access management technologies and standards, including single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML.
- Experience applying artificial intelligence-enabled engineering tools and practices to improve development speed, code quality, testing, and documentation.
About the company
Vanguard manages mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and retirement investments for individuals, financial advisers, and institutions. Its Vanguard 500 Index Fund gives investors exposure to large U.S. companies by tracking the S&P 500, while its lineup also includes actively managed stock and bond funds. Clients invest through brokerage and retirement accounts, workplace plans, or advisers, and advisory services build and maintain portfolios around their goals. Fund expenses and advisory fees pay for investment management and account services, with advisory charges based on the assets managed. Founded in 1975, Vanguard is headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Private
Total Funding
$11.2M
Headquarters
Kline Township, Pennsylvania
Founded
1975
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- U.S. retirement support adds compensation: Vanguard contributes 10% of salary to 401(k)s, plus a match up to 4%.
- Lower fees support competitiveness: February 2026 cuts reached 84 Vanguard fund share classes across 53 funds.
- Advisor custody is the next expansion: Vanguard agreed to acquire wealth platform Altruist in August 2026.
What critics are saying
- Active strategies depend on partners: Vanguard uses over 20 outside managers, including Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
- Cash awards depend on collective results: Vanguard's U.S. Partnership Plan links payments to company performance and client outcomes.
- Stewardship faces binding limits: Vanguard's February 2026 Texas settlement restricts climate advocacy for specified U.S. fund holdings.
What makes Vanguard unique
- Fund investors sit above the company: Vanguard is owned by its funds, which their shareholders own.
- Costs stay exceptionally low: Vanguard's U.S. funds averaged 0.07% in asset-weighted expenses in 2025.
- Index investors choose their voting approach: Vanguard Investor Choice applies selected policies to eligible fund shareholders' corporate votes.
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Benefits
Best-in-class medical, dental & vision coverage
Onsite health clinic & fitness center
Health Smart Rewards program
Vanguard Retirement Savings Plan
Education Benefits
PTO
Family Planning Benefist
Parental leave
Personal development opportunities
Volunteer Time Off
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
8%1 year growth
8%2 year growth
8%A $500,000 position in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) puts $40,400 into NVIDIA alone, as the chipmaker made up 8.08% of the fund on August 31, 2026. The fund's top 10 holdings account for 37.78%, or $188,900. The S&P 500 weights companies by market value, so NVIDIA's growth lifted its share automatically. Its stock rose 1,005.49% over five years to October 9, 2026, while VOO rose 90.68%. Concentration brings swings. A 2% weekly drop in NVIDIA on that slice costs about $808, roughly five years of VOO's $150 annual fee at 0.03%. Investors who also hold NVIDIA shares or a tech fund may face higher exposure than the fund's weight suggests.
The Council for Economic Education has launched the National Investment Challenge, a new competition designed to teach high school students foundational investing skills. The challenge will use Vanguard's free My Classroom Investor simulation, where students manage mock 30-year portfolios and respond to market shifts and unexpected events. Early access opens in November, with the competition starting in January 2027. It will include qualifying rounds, state rounds, and culminate in a national final in Philadelphia in May, with teams competing for cash prizes. In the simulation, students choose characters with financial goals and manage portfolios containing stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The programme aligns with CEE Standards and the CFA Investment Foundations exam, helping students build credential-ready skills whilst learning long-term investment principles.
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Vanguard is pushing into Fidelity's turf.
Vanguard has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Altruist, an AI-forward wealth technology and custody platform serving financial advisors. The deal, expected to close later this year pending regulatory approvals, aims to expand access to financial advice by enabling advisors to serve more clients efficiently. Vanguard first invested in Altruist in 2020 to increase competition in the registered investment advisor custody space. Following the acquisition, Altruist will operate as a standalone business, retaining its leadership, brand, and operating model whilst gaining access to Vanguard's resources and investment expertise. The transaction terms were not disclosed. Altruist will continue focusing on providing integrated technology solutions for independent financial advisors, combining custody services with portfolio management tools.