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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Rain

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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 • Lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers • Manage the team’s technical refinements and productivity • Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a distributed microservices architecture • Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors and partners • Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs for internal admin portals • Create reusable code and libraries shared across teams • Enforce observability practices using logging, metrics, and alerting • Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture, APIs, workflows, and configurations • Monitor systems and applications to maximize performance and scalability • Coordinate with product and engineering partners to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless software development lifecycle execution • Shape the architectural direction of Rain’s financial health products • Design financial product systems and lead banking partner integrations • Maintain precision across ledgers and repayment reconciliation processes • Set the technical bar and guide system design decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience • At least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role • Ability to design systems and understand trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed environments • Strong ownership of projects from concept to completion • Experience with complex large-scale distributed systems • Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python • Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), including transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale • Strong experience with Kafka for resilient asynchronous workflows • Proven experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications • Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) • Experience with Docker/Kubernetes container orchestration • Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions/GitLab CI • Infrastructure-as-code experience and a “you build it, you run it” mentality • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Must answer application questions about Go, Kafka, SQL/Postgres, RESTful APIs, fintech/financial services/banking, and AI tools

🏖️ Benefits

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