Rain, a leading fintech company in the US, serves 3.5 million employees and is backed by top investors.
They have raised nearly $400M in funding and just closed their Series B to fuel their next stage of growth.
As a Senior Backend Developer, you'll manage various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
You'll work with international product and engineering teams to manage a robust digital wallet that enables users to transact through seamless account creation and employer linking.
Our ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and contribute to strategic thinking.
Responsibilities:
* Translate product requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches, and lead development efforts to meet ambitious targets.
* Design and implement reliable systems and applications in the context of a fully distributed architecture.
* Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
* Design and implement highly available 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.
* Document all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations.
* Monitor systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability.
* Cross-team communication and collaboration to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure coordination throughout the software development lifecycle.
Requirements:
* 5+ years of Software Development experience.
* A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of 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 APIs.
* Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies and understanding of database concepts and internals.
* Experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications.
* Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures.
* Excellent collaboration skills, working effectively with cross-functional teams, presenting ideas, and communicating technical concepts.
* Stay up-to-date with technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and others.
* 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.
Benefits:
* We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity employment.