Team Lead, Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Cross River provides API-driven banking infrastructure enabling embedded financial services including payments, lending, card programs, and cryptocurrency solutions.
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About Cross River Bank
Cross River operates a proprietary real-time banking core platform that delivers embedded financial services to fintech and technology companies. The platform provides payment rails including ACH, wires, RTP, and FedNow, card issuing and processing capabilities, digital lending infrastructure, and cryptocurrency banking services. Cross River enables partners to access banking functionality through API integrations while maintaining federal regulatory compliance.
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About the Role
You will lead and mentor an IAM engineering team while remaining hands-on with code, architecture, design reviews, and code quality. You will shape the architecture, performance, availability, and evolution of IAM applications, authentication flows, authorization layers, and the core identity provider. You will establish technical standards, advance OAuth 2.0, OIDC, FAPI, and federation practices, coordinate secure integrations with security, product, and engineering partners, and drive responsible use of AI tools and automation throughout the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 2+ years leading software or security engineering teams as a Team Lead or Tech Lead while remaining hands-on
- Strong system design, distributed architecture, and scalable software development background
- Deep familiarity with IAM protocols, standards, and systems, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, FAPI, modern identity providers, and access-control models
- Ability to learn complex and evolving technical domains quickly
- Experience using AI technologies and developer-productivity tools
- Exceptional verbal and written communication in English and Hebrew
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and inspire IAM engineers
- Set technical standards through design reviews, code quality, and direct contributions
- Drive the design, performance, availability, and evolution of IAM applications and authentication and authorization flows
- Contribute to the identity provider architecture and technical roadmap
- Translate IAM standards and protocol advancements into architectural strategy
- Coordinate secure integrations among security, product, and engineering teams
- Drive adoption of AI tools and intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle
Benefits
- Full Keren Hishtalmut
- Private health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Monthly wellness reimbursement
- Volunteering opportunities
