Provides expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools.

Want to work on a state-of-the-art mobile application with modern design, architecture and tools in a true agile environment? Come join our growing, enthusiastic, and talented Mobile development team! Vanguard is heavily investing and committing to build a world-class mobile experience for our clients and we are looking for top talent to build/ enhance Node JS middleware for our iOS and Android native apps. You will be joining a fun, collaborative and inclusive cross-functional team where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology, development practices.

What it takes:

• Highly collaborative, a fast learner and willing to work wherever youre needed on the team.

• Partner with architects to implement high-performance mobile applications

• Research and summarize adjacent technology trends to provide guidance

• Mentor the team on the how of better use of existing platform components and performance best practices.

• Demonstrated experience with software engineering fundamentals including object-oriented design, data structures, dependency injection, testable code, and algorithms.

• Use Observability to continuously optimize your product capacity, performance, monitoring and alerting.

• Able to effectively communicate technical issues in a manner all can understand.

• Effective at laying out a technical vision for your product.

• Able to work with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to prioritize work relative to both delivering business value and addressing technical debt.

• Leads system analysis, design, development, and implementation for our existing mobile native applications.

• Translates stories into design & code. Develops well-engineered code and test artifacts backed by automated tests

• Research and employs contemporary software development techniques to ensure quality and improve velocity of the team

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

• Follows Agile software development methodology. Follows architecture standards and best practices

• Leads in design, code, and test inspections throughout life cycle to identify issues. Participates in other meetings, such as those for use case creation.

• Contributes to develop and maintain an inclusive and highly collaborative environment for the team.

Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years of NodeJS experience.

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

Technology Stack:

• NodeJS

• Typescript

• NestJS

• Visual Studio Code

• RESTful Services (Spring Boot / Java on AWS)

• CI/CD Pipeline, Github Actions

• Git/GitHub

• JIRA

• AWS Cloud - ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda a plus

• XCode / SWIFT or Android Studio/ Java experience is a plus.

• Working knowledge of Adobe Analytics, AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry is a plus

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a missionwe'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.