Tech Lead – Security and Identity Platform, Backend NodeJS

🔥 1 minute ago

🌐 Bulgaria, Poland, +4 more countries – Remote

🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇷🇴 Romania – Remote 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Remote 🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote 🇹🇭 Thailand – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 10%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Reap

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Crypto • B2B

Reap is a fintech company providing borderless, stablecoin-enabled financial infrastructure for businesses. It offers business accounts (Reap Direct), Visa corporate cards with fiat and stablecoin repayment, cross-border payments powered by stablecoins, expense management for multi-currency treasuries, and embedded finance APIs including card issuing and payment APIs to automate global fiat payouts and enable stablecoin-native finance.

📋 Description

• Architect, build, and operate Reap’s shared identity layer, including login, session management, and multi-factor authentication • Design secure, reusable APIs and services for engineering teams • Build capabilities to detect and prevent unauthorised access and account takeover • Partner with product and risk stakeholders to translate threats into practical controls • Develop consistent authorisation and access controls with reliable audit trails • Design secure data and traffic routing for jurisdiction-specific requirements • Build reliable infrastructure for security, risk, and transaction alerts • Build and operate services on AWS using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code • Embed threat modelling, security testing, monitoring, logging, and alerting into delivery • Investigate incidents and address root causes • Own architecture and design reviews and set engineering standards • Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on • Partner with the Knox PM and engineering teams to prioritise risk-reducing and market-enabling work • Provide APIs, defaults, and documentation that make secure adoption easy • Use AI tools responsibly for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 8–10+ years in backend or platform engineering, including hands-on ownership of security-critical services or shared identity and access infrastructure in production • At least 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead or Engineering Manager) • Track record of owning architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex projects end to end • Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, session security, MFA, and access control • Experience implementing OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect • Experience applying secure-by-design practices, threat modelling, and least privilege • Preferably Node.js + TypeScript; strong backend engineers using Go, Java, or Python may be considered • Experience building APIs and event-driven/serverless systems • Strong AWS experience, including securing and operating production services • Solid CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices • Hands-on experience with relational databases such as AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL, or MySQL • Experience with schema design and ORM frameworks such as TypeORM • Ability to design for sensitive data protection, traceability, and reliable audit trails • Ability to reason about threats, failure modes, and dependencies across services; debug complex issues; and balance security, reliability, developer experience, and delivery speed • Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Codex, with sound judgement about data handling and validation of generated code • Experience with fraud prevention, account takeover protection, data residency, or security platforms in fintech, payments, crypto, or other regulated environments is a plus • Relevant cybersecurity certifications are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work environment with a global, collaborative team • Use of AI tools at work, with space to learn, experiment, and grow • Culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning