About Vanguard

More than 45 years ago, John C. Bogle had a vision to start an investment company that did things differently. A company with no external shareholders. Where all the profits were invested back into the business and used to lower costs. Evidently, it was as bold as it was brilliant. To this day, Vanguard Group still has no external shareholders. That means no share prices to protect, and no profits to generate for outside owners. 

Today, Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, serving more than 50 million investors worldwide. For more than 25 years Vanguard Australia has been supporting individual investors, financial advisers, and superannuation members to achieve their long-term financial goals.

Team and Opportunity

This role will join our Mobile App Platform team in the Personal Investor Technology department.  At the core of our strategy is our technology and crew providing best in class technology services that are designed to scale with our growing business. Our vision is to provide a premium app experience that exceeds clients expectations and turns them into Vanguard promoters. 

The mobile app platform team is responsible for maintaining the platform upon which the mobile app is built. The platform allows product teams to deliver functionality rapidly and with autonomy. It reduces their cognitive load by providing ready built components which are reused to deliver work. The platform team works to “turbocharge” the product teams. 

The Mobile Application Engineer will contribute to improve on the app architecture to provide high-quality mobile platform foundations that promotes federated development from multiple product teams.

Core Accountabilities

• Builds and maintains the platform upon which the mobile app is built.
• Has knowledge of industry best practices for react native mobile app development and mentors junior team members.
• Engages with the product teams to help understand their needs and accelerate development by enhancing the platform to meet their needs.
• Creates and updates documentation of the platform.
• Capable of designing solutions, writing code, testing code, automating test and deployment.
• Work effectively with a high degree of autonomy within a collaboratively minded team.
• Translates technical specifications, and/or logical and physical design into code for new or enhancement to projects for internal clients.
• Develops code and test artifacts that reuse subroutines or objects that are well structured and backed by automated tests.
• Employs contemporary software development techniques to ensure tests are implemented in a way that supports automation.
• Understands and applies ITIL processes.
• Participates in design, code, and test Inspections throughout life cycle to identify issues. Explains technical considerations at related meetings, including those with internal clients.
• Performs systems analysis, including system requirements analysis and definition (e.g., prototyping), and logical and physical design.
• Communicates systems issues at the appropriate technical level for each audience.

Key Technical Skills

• Deep mobile app development experience, specifically React Native
• Deep general React knowledge, including React Hooks
• Experience with various React libraries (e.g. Redux)
• Highly proficient with TypeScript

Agile/Digital Experience

• Working knowledge of mobile app beta and production distribution
• Experience in Agile Development
• Understands relationship with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and rest of technical team

Individual Skills

• Strong communication skills with ability to learn and adapt to a rapidly evolving tech stack
• Strong strategic problem-solving skills to innovation
• Pragmatic approach to software development including continuous improvements, testing, and user-focused software

Specialization that will make an impact: 

• General development tooling (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Actions, Appium)
• Basic understanding of IaaS platforms, specifically AWS
• Test automation and test-driven development practices and frameworks – mutation testing, functional testing, mock frameworks
• Familiarity with DevSecOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience in native iOS/Android code
• Component Driven Development
• Performance optimisation for React Native Applications

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard’s core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Recruitment agencies please note: Vacancies are managed by the Vanguard Talent Acquisition Team. Should external recruitment assistance be required, the TA Team will reach out to Vanguard agency partners directly.

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.