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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, recommend alternative approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets • Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a fully distributed micro-services architecture • Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners • Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications • Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that ensure scalability for future projects • Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics, and alerting systems • Create and maintain detailed technical documentation (architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations) • Continuously monitor systems for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability

🎯 Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of professional experience as an engineer • Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang, Python • Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs • Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data model design and optimization • Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications • Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or Flink • Familiarity with Cloud technologies: AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others • Effective release management experience for ensuring zero downtime and experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Gitlab CI and Github actions

🏖️ Benefits

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments • Flexible working hours