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Rain is the fastest-growing earned wage access (EWA) fintech in the U.S., serving 2.5 million employees and 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 support our next stage of hypergrowth.
We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with experience in Golang.
This position is remote.
The candidate will manage various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with third-party vendors and partners.
As a Backend Engineer in our User Tribe, you will play a key role in making it easier for users to access Rain and develop products that help maintain positive cash availability.
You will collaborate with our international product and engineering teams to manage a robust digital wallet that enables seamless account creation and employer linking.
Our ideal candidate is eager to tackle challenging technical problems and contribute to strategic planning.
Responsibilities
Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious goals.
Design and implement reliable systems and applications within a fully distributed microservices architecture.
Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors and partners.
Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications.
Create reusable code and libraries to foster collaboration and scalability.
Enforce observability best practices using tools like logging, metrics, and alerting systems.
Develop and maintain detailed technical documentation.
Monitor systems for performance and scalability improvements.
Collaborate effectively across teams to align priorities and requirements throughout the development lifecycle.
Skills and Qualifications
5+ years of software development experience.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Proficient in backend languages such as Go/Golang, Java, Python, or C++.
Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and optimization.
Experience building reliable, scalable user-facing applications.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
Ability to own projects from concept to completion, proactively solving challenges.
Experience with agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
Proficiency with message queuing systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Flink.
Experience with CI/CD frameworks like GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
Rain is committed to diversity and equal employment opportunity.
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