Senior Backend Engineer, Rain
Users
Employer-sponsored financial wellness provider
Open for applications
Employer-sponsored financial wellness provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To regrow individual freedom by giving people control over their income and finances.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of Software Development experience
- A 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, including data model design and optimization principles
- Experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
- Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures, with a strong ability to meet performance and scalability requirements
- 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 - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others
- Strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion with minimal supervision, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions
- Experience working with agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to deliver high-quality results in iterative cycles
- Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka(preferred)/RabbitMQ/Flink
- 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 Backend Software Engineer that must have some Golang experience
- 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 User Tribe you will play a central role in making it easier for users to access Rain 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
- 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 the context of 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 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 and maintain detailed technical documentation for all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations
- Continuously monitor Rain 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
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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