Tech Lead, Rain
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 7+ years of professional experience, with at least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role
- You don’t just write code; you design systems. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed environments
- 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
- Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python
- Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), specifically regarding transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale
- Strong experience with Kafka for building resilient, asynchronous workflows
- Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
- Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) and container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes
- Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and a "you build it, you run it" mentality toward infrastructure-as-code
What the job involves
- The Core Services team builds and maintains the fundamental engine that powers the entire Rain ecosystem
- While our Enterprise teams focus on the "how" of connecting to partners, Core Services owns the "what" - managing the absolute source of truth for transactions, balances, and financial movement
- We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead to spearhead the development within our Core Services squad
- Core Services is responsible for employee balances, debt management, which includes ledger management, billing, repayments, and repayment reconciliation
- In this role, you will lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, while shaping the architectural direction of our products
- Our ideal candidate is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and eager to play a key role in driving our strategic vision forward
- Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets
- Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage the team’s tech refinements and productivity
- 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 our internal admin portals
- 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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