Senior Backend Engineer

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🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Rain

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $75M Series B - Rain on 2025-02

Fintech • HR Tech • SaaS

Rain is an AI-driven financial wellness platform for employers that gives employees on-demand access to earned wages and a suite of tools (budgeting, spending analysis, financial coaching, free tax filing, balance protection) to reduce financial stress and improve retention and productivity. The company emphasizes quick payroll integrations, minimal data collection, enterprise-grade security and compliance (SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001), and operates as a fintech (not a bank) serving employers and employees; it reports 3. 5M+ employees empowered and strong employer impact metrics. Rain is positioned as a B2B SaaS platform sold to employers to deliver earned wage access (EWA) and broader financial-health services.

📋 Description

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and recommend alternative approaches • Lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets • Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a fully distributed microservices architecture • Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors and partners • Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs for user-facing web and mobile applications • Create reusable code and libraries for future scalability • Enforce observability practices using logging, metrics, and alerting systems • Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture, APIs, workflows, and system configurations • Monitor systems to maximize performance and scalability • Work with international product and engineering teams across banking, payroll, and timekeeping domains

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience as an engineer • Strong ability to take ownership of projects and drive initiatives from concept to completion • Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills • Familiarity with complex large-scale distributed systems • Proficiency in Go/Golang • Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs • Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data model design and optimization • Proven experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications • Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Flink • Familiarity with cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS • Effective release management experience for zero-downtime deployments • Experience with CI/CD frameworks such as GitLab CI and GitHub Actions • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Must answer application questions about Go, Kafka, SQL/Postgres, RESTful APIs, fintech/financial services, and AI tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage • Parental leave • Monthly stipend • Equity options

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