Senior Backend Engineer, Rain
Enterprise
Employer-sponsored financial wellness provider
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Employer-sponsored financial wellness provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To regrow individual freedom by giving people control over their income and finances.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of professional experience as an engineer
- You have a strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions
- You have excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
- You’re familiar with complex large scale distributed systems
- Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang, Python, and/or C++
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in EMEA
- This position is remote
- The candidate will be responsible for managing various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
- As a Backend Engineer with our Enterprise Tribe you will play a central role in helping Rain become the #1 platform for financial wellness by focusing on data integration, data ingestion, and payroll processing
- You will work with our product and engineering teams to provide financial freedom to over 1 million employees by managing the data ingestion of over 10 million timekeeping records per day
- Our ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and looking for opportunities to contribute to our strategic thinking
- 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
Application process
- Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us
- We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 10 business days
- Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role
- Learn more about our hiring process here
- Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility
Our take
Financial difficulties continue to be a leading cause of employee stress, and waiting for payday can cause periods of cash drought where workers are vulnerable to overdraft fees and predatory lending. Rain provides employees with access to an amount of their earned wage, which is reimbursed by employers per their regular pay cycle.
Although paying employees more often seems a solution to the payday problem, it is often too demanding for payroll departments, and brings associated costs that companies would rather avoid. Rain is free to employers who offer it as a benefit for their employees, and it integrates with payroll systems easily. Instead of paying high interest on a payday loan, employees pay a small fee for the transaction when they access pay before payday.
Rain is backed by Clear Haven Capital, a company offering balance sheet capital solutions for financial services. Clear Haven has invested in other ascendant fintechs such as Walnut and Torpago, making it a promising partner. Rain's impressive investment will fund its continued US expansion, further develop technology and infrastructure, as well as contribute to increasing marketing efforts.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2025
$75m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$66m
SERIES A
Total funding: $153.6m
Company benefits
- Remote work & a hybrid option for team members in our Nashville hub
- Flexible benefits package to fit your needs
- Opportunities for growth - we encourage employees to seek new passions within the company
- We offer volunteer opportunities and encourage our team members to prioritize their physical and mental health
Company HQ
Oakwood, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Alex Bradford
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founder of Mosaic and BIG. Former CEO/Founder at Voyager Global Advisors.
Gilberto Garcia Jr
(Chief Architect Officer, CTO & Co-Founder)Former Software Developer Consultant with Ascendant Compliance Management. Previously worked as Senior Scala Developer at Burner (Ad Hoc Labs).
Jen Terrell
(VP Employer Partnerships)Former VP Sales with Groupon. Worked at LivingSocial for 5 years including as Head of Local North American Sales division.
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