Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

at Rain Instant Pay

Remote, EMEA

About Rain

Rain is the fastest-growing earned wage access (EWA) fintech in the U.S. We serve 2.5 million employees and are backed by top investors like QED and Prosus. We have raised nearly $400M in funding, including the largest Series A in fintech history, and recently closed our Series B to fuel our next stage of hypergrowth.

Our platform helps people avoid unnecessary financial stress while helping employers boost retention, productivity, and employee well-being. We're driving a movement toward financial freedom, and we are just getting started.

About the Engineering Team

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 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 products in the interception of the banking, payroll and timekeeping domains. Our ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and looking for opportunities to contribute to our strategic thinking

What You’ll Do

• 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

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

Required Technical Qualifications

• Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang, Python
• 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
   

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitments

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Rain is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].

What’s Next

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. 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.