Technical Lead - Debit Card & Digital Wallet Platforms

Archer; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with Vanguard, seeks an Application Engineering Technical Lead for Debit Card and Digital Wallet integration. You will design and deliver scalable frontend and backend solutions for Cash Spend capabilities, partnering with Product Managers, Architects, and UX teams.

You will mentor engineers, enforce secure coding practices, and drive architecture decisions across multiple squads in a highly regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of related work experience with architecture leadership.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent; graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level technical leadership for digital products and platforms.
• Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of scalable frontend and backend solutions.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Architects, and Domain Architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions, roadmaps, and architecture designs.
• Evaluate, recommend, and integrate third-party products, SDKs, APIs, and vendor services while ensuring scalability and platform health.
• Review and approve technical designs, code, testing strategies, architecture specifications, documentation, and team deliverables to ensure quality and reliability.
• Lead solution reviews, architecture discussions, design sessions, code reviews, and technical decision-making across multiple teams.
• Drive performance optimization, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across client-facing digital experiences.
• Identify technical risks and complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and lead timely resolution.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, secure coding practices, testing methodologies, CI/CD automation, and DevOps best practices across the organization.
• Communicate technical strategy, project impacts, and solution recommendations to key stakeholders while influencing technology investment decisions.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering continuous learning and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Ensure all solutions comply with enterprise technology, information security, and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Angular

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

NestJS

GraphQL

AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda/Fargate)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Observability

Financial services domain

Mobile-web integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in STEM

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

AppDynamics

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Adobe Analytics

Job description

Archer, in collaboration with Vanguard, seeks an Application Engineering Technical Lead for Debit Card and Digital Wallet integration. You will design and deliver scalable frontend and backend solutions for Cash Spend capabilities, partnering with Product Managers, Architects, and UX teams.

You will mentor engineers, enforce secure coding practices, and drive architecture decisions across multiple squads in a highly regulated financial services environment.