Full Stack Engineering Manager Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

We are looking for two Engineering Managers to join our Malvern PA based Advice teams in Wealth Management who will play an integral part in Vanguard's goal to grow and scale its Personal Advisor Select offer. These roles are ideal for a leader who enjoys flexing both deep technical expertise and people management skills while influencing the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of modern technologies and tools. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead an agile, high-performing engineering team delivering highly critical, rapidly growing cloud-native platforms that directly enhance advisor productivity and improve the client experience. We have opportunities on two full-stack engineering teams which support platforms for our clients and advisors. One emphasizes the front-end/client focus, and the other with a heavier back-end/cloud/advisor focus.

In this role, you will partner closely with product, design, architecture, stakeholders, while working closely with other teams in the Digital Engagement sub-family to deliver these world class solutions. You will help your team grow their technical capability and financial services acumen, while working as part of an engineering community that values technical excellence, collaboration, problem solving, and bringing out the best in each other. You'll continuously apply modern engineering practices and leverage AI assisted engineering as part of the team's toolkit. The environment is fun, inclusive, and collaborative, with a strong emphasis on craftsmanship, learning, and delivering meaningful outcomes for advisors and clients.

Success in this role comes from strong judgment: making tradeoffs across cost, time, risk, and value while staying anchored to a long-term vision. You'll help partners separate must-have capabilities from nice-to-have enhancements, bring structure to ambiguity, and create the conditions for predictable delivery across a complex ecosystem.

What You'll Do:

• Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew. Provide guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Set performance standards, review performance, and make informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable human resources policies and procedures.

• Deliver software releases relating to the product for the business units. Work with business clients to determine scope and develop environmental requirements for each project.

• Work closely with management to develop and implement staffing and operational plans. Participate in the development of short- and long-term department goals. Monitor and report on service delivery metrics and overall performance.

• Develop and implement changes to department policies and procedures to meet changing business needs and to achieve department objectives. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Lead quality initiatives to improve the delivery of service levels. Work with senior management in the planning, development, and execution of short- and long-range goals.

• Present status, metrics, and department initiatives at meetings with management and project peers. Maintain relationships with technical teams, IT, and business partners.

• Participate in the development of the department budget. Review expenses and ensure department operates within budgetary guidelines.

• Ensure staff comply with information technology and information security policies and procedures and verify that deliverables meet requirements.

• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least five years of software development experience.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

• Proven people leadership experience, including the ability to grow, develop, and support a team.

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and interpret technical details.

• Strong expertise in IT project management, Agile methodologies, and SDLC best practices with experience in IT infrastructure, software development, and enterprise IT solutions.

• Understanding of how to appropriately leverage AI tools and practices.

• Understanding and management of key DevOps metrics.

• Proficiency in risk management, budgeting, and IT governance. Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and IT compliance standards.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Skills

We have two opportunities; both seek individuals with full-stack technical experience. One leans slightly heavier on the front-end and building out client experiences, the other leans heavier on building end-to-end technical platforms in our financial planning ecosystem.

Contacts, Investments, & Reports team

• Frontend: Angular 21, TypeScript, NX monorepo, Module Federation, SSR, Preact

• Backend: TypeScript/Nest/Node, Java/Spring, GraphQL/REST

• Cloud: ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, IAM

• Testing/Quality: Playwright, web-vitals, accessibility tooling

• Architecture: AWS, micro frontends, distributed web services

Financial Planning team

• Frontend: Angular, TypeScript

• Backend: TypeScript/Nest/Node, Java/Spring, GraphQL/REST, Python, Glue, DynamoDB

• Cloud: ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, IAM, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Glue, Lambda

• Testing/Quality: Playwright, web-vitals, accessibility tooling

• Architecture: AWS, micro frontends, distributed web services, event-driven, ETL

Special Factors

Sponsorship

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.