Tech Lead Platform Team Backend-Focused
Reap is a stablecoin-native financial infrastructure company providing business accounts, Visa corporate cards, global fiat payments, expense management, and embedded card and payment services.
Funding history
About Reap
Reap is a Hong Kong-founded fintech that bridges traditional finance and digital assets for global businesses. Its platform supports stablecoin-funded corporate cards, business payments settled in fiat, expense controls, treasury operations, and embedded card-issuing and payment infrastructure. Payward completed its acquisition of Reap on July 1, 2026; Reap continues operating as a standalone brand within the Payward ecosystem.
Skills
About the Role
You will architect and maintain integrations with external systems, design APIs and services, operate AWS infrastructure, establish CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices, and improve monitoring and reliability. You will investigate incidents, resolve root causes, use AI-assisted development tools, lead architecture reviews, set technical standards, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of backend or platform engineering experience
- Experience with system integrations workflow orchestration and API-driven solutions
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role
- Experience owning architecture decisions and delivering complex projects end to end
- Strong backend engineering experience preferably with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience with event-driven or serverless systems
- Strong AWS experience
- Experience with CI/CD and production services
- Experience using AI coding tools and integrating LLM APIs
- Hands-on experience with relational databases including AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with schema design and ORM frameworks such as TypeORM
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Fintech payments crypto or financial services integration experience is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain integrations with external third-party systems
- Design and implement well-structured APIs and services
- Build and operate AWS services
- Establish CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Implement monitoring logging and alerting
- Investigate incidents and resolve root causes
- Use AI tools for code generation debugging testing and documentation
- Set technical direction and engineering standards
- Lead architecture and design reviews
- Mentor engineers and improve code quality and delivery practices
Benefits
- Flexible remote work arrangement
- Insurance coverage after probation
- Reap Card stipend
- AI tools for work