BFF; Node Technical Lead

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.

• Highly collaborative, a fast learner and willing to work wherever you’re 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.

• 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.

• NodeJS
• Typescript
• NestJS
• Visual Studio Code
• RESTful Services (Spring Boot / Java on AWS)
• CI/CD Pipeline, Github Actions
• Git/Git Hub
• JIRA
• AWS Cloud - ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda a plus
• XCode / SWIFT or Android Studio/ Java experience is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Analytics, App Dynamics, Splunk, Open Telemetry is a plus

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.