Remote Engineering Lead — Scalable Go/Python Systems

Rain; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rain, the world's first AI Financial Health Platform, is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed engineering team. You will translate product requirements into robust architectures, own technical direction, and ensure scalable, observable systems in a microservices environment.

The role is remote, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, system design, and building reliable APIs, data pipelines, and platforms that support rapid growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in formal or informal leadership roles.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts to meet targets.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage tech refinements and productivity.
• Design and implement reliable systems within a distributed micro-services architecture.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors and partners.
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs for internal admin portals.
• Create reusable code and libraries to share across teams and ensure scalability.
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics and alerting systems.
• Prepare detailed technical documentation including architecture, APIs, workflows, and configurations.
• Monitor Rain systems for performance and scalability opportunities.
• Communicate across teams to align priorities and dependencies throughout the SDLC.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Go

Python

RESTful APIs

SQL

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Rain, the world's first AI Financial Health Platform, is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed engineering team. You will translate product requirements into robust architectures, own technical direction, and ensure scalable, observable systems in a microservices environment.

The role is remote, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, system design, and building reliable APIs, data pipelines, and platforms that support rapid growth.