Backend API Engineer Technical Lead II

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$110K — $140K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of related work experience, including 3 years of development experience.
  • 3+ years of experience with Node.js.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent training and experience; graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate collaboration and adaptability within the team.
  • Partner with architects to implement high-performance mobile applications.
  • Research technology trends to inform development processes.
  • Mentor teammates on maximizing existing platform components and performance.
  • Apply software engineering fundamentals in your work.
  • Utilize observability tools for optimizing product performance.
  • Communicate technical issues clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Lead system analysis and development for existing mobile applications.
  • Translate stories into design and code while ensuring high-quality outputs.
  • Adhere to Agile methodologies and architecture best practices.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with office presence required on select days.
  • Opportunity to work with advanced technology and development practices.
  • Inclusive and collaborative team culture.
  • Growth opportunities through mentorship and skill development.
Full Job Description
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 committed to building 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.

This is hybrid position, with in-office work required Tue, Wed, Thur.

What You'll Do:
  • Demonstrate collaboration, adaptability, and a willingness to contribute wherever the team needs support.
  • 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.
  • Apply 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.
  • Communicate technical issues effectively in a manner all audiences can understand.
  • Establish and communicate a technical vision for your product.
  • Work with Scrum Masters and Product Owners to prioritize work relative to both delivering business value and addressing technical debt.
  • Lead system analysis, design, development, and implementation for our existing mobile native applications.
  • Translate stories into design & code. Develop well-engineered code and test artifacts backed by automated tests.
  • Research and employ contemporary software development techniques to ensure quality and improve velocity of the team.
  • Elevate code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provide follow up production support. Submit change control requests and documents.
  • Follow Agile software development methodology. Follow architecture standards and best practices
  • Lead in design, code, and test inspections throughout life cycle to identify issues. Participate in other meetings, such as those for use case creation.
  • Foster and maintain an inclusive, highly collaborative team environment.


Qualifications:
  • 8+ years related work experience, with at least 3 years of development experience.
  • 3+ years of Node.js experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.


Technology Stack:
  • Node.js
  • 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.


Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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