Rain is the fastest-growing fintech in the US, serving 3.5 million employees and backed by top investors. We've raised nearly $400M in funding—including the largest Series A in fintech history—and just closed our Series B to fuel our next stage of hypergrowth.
As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for managing various areas of our platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
You will play a central role in making it easier for users to access our services and build products that help users maintain positive cash availability. You will work with our international product and engineering teams to manage a robust digital wallet that enables users to transact through seamless account creation and frictionless employer linking.
Key Responsibilities:
* Translate product requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches and lead 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
* Create reusable code and libraries that can be shared across teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring scalability for future projects
* Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics, and alerting systems
* Create detailed technical documentation for all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations
* Continuously monitor systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability
* Effective cross-team communication and collaboration to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless coordination throughout the software development lifecycle
Requirements:
* 5+ years of Software Development experience
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
* Proficient knowledge of back-end programming languages such as Go/Golang, Java, Python, and C++
* Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs
* Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies and strong understanding of database concepts and internals
* Experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
* Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures
* Excellent collaboration skills, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
* Keep up to date with technologies like AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
* Strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion with minimal supervision
* Experience working with agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to deliver high-quality results in iterative cycles