Senior Mobile Engineer

Location: Malvern, PA

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

What You’ll Do 

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable mobile application features. 

• Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and platform teams to deliver intuitive, high-quality mobile experiences. 

• Continuously improve application performance, responsiveness, reliability, and maintainability. 

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

• Elevate code into the development, test, and production environments on schedule. Provide follow-up production support. Submit change control requests and documents. 

• Provide subject matter expertise in software development methodology and development architecture standards. Mentor staff with less experience.

• Effectively communicate technical issues in a manner all can understand. 

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

• Understand and comply with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures; verify that deliverables meet requirements. 

 

Required Qualifications 

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

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

• Experience designing and developing cross-platform applications with React Native. 

• Experience building cloud-native applications and services using AWS and serverless technologies. 

• Experience integrating native iOS capabilities, Apple frameworks, and third-party SDKs within React Native applications. 

• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript. Experience building maintainable, type-safe codebases. 

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and demonstrate a hands-on understanding. 

• Strong understanding of design patterns, integration patterns/practice, data modeling principles and best practices

• A good track record of project delivery for large cross-team projects

• Strong communication skills and the ability to connect with engineers, managers, PMs, customers

• Experience with Mobile/Web development frameworks, and micro-service architecture

 

Preferred Skills 

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

• Experience with Expo and modern React Native development practices. 

• CI/CD Pipeline (GitHub Actions / Fastlane)

• Git (GitHub)

• Honeycomb

• Splunk 

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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.