Solution Architect (Node, TypeScript, Microservices, AWS)

About Reap

Reap is a global financial technology company headquartered in Hong Kong with employees across multiple countries. We enable financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide by combining traditional finance with stablecoins for efficient money movement.

Through our stablecoin-powered corporate cards, payments, and expense management tools, we streamline financial operations and help businesses scale. Our APIs enable businesses to integrate stablecoin-enabled finance into their own products and services—from issuing Visa cards to facilitating cross-border payments.

Backed by leading investors including Index Ventures and HashKey Capital, Reap is building the future of borderless, stablecoin-enabled finance.

Role Overview:

The Solution Architect bridges product, engineering, and business as a senior technical leader. You’ll collaborate closely with Engineering Managers (EMs), Product Managers (PMs), Customer Success (CS), Technical Customer Support (TCS), and internal business users to ensure the right technical decisions are made and executed effectively. You'll be responsible for ensuring scalable, sustainable solutions that align with Reap's architectural standards and long-term goals. While not a people manager, you'll drive clarity, unblock engineering problems, and guide systems design.

Responsibilities:

• Drive engineering initiatives within your assigned product domain while coordinating with other teams to ensure alignment
  
• Define and review technical SLAs and incident response plans that are actionable and tailored to service ownership
  
• Champion best practices in architecture, scalability, observability, security, and maintainability
  
• Partner with EMs to shape and execute technical health roadmaps, including tech debt remediation and infrastructure modernization
  
• Review solutions, lead technical discovery for complex projects, and mentor engineers across the team
  
• Develop deep business and technical domain expertise and ensure architectural decisions balance product context with scalability needs

To be successful you will need to have:

• Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of experience designing scalable, enterprise-grade systems with 3+ years in Solution Architect or Engineering Manager role
• Technical proficiency: Strong knowledge in scalable and self-healing software application design, API design, and design patterns. Familiarity with modern architectures and frameworks especially micro services, event driven, serverless, node, typescript, nestjs, lambdas, cloud technologies, etc.
• Strong knowledge in database management and performance tuning, particularly AWS Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Experience with cards, payment, FX, treasury systems or financial technology is highly desirable
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with ability to influence without authority

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