Remote Staff Backend Engineer – Fintech Platform Architect

Rain; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rain, located in the United Kingdom, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the technical direction for major areas of its backend platform. The position is remote and involves building scalable integrations and APIs, mentoring fellow engineers, and ensuring system reliability.

As a key player in the fintech industry, you'll leverage your extensive expertise in backend languages and cloud technologies to shape innovative financial health products. Rain is committed to diversity and equal opportunity in hiring.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional experience in engineering.
• Extensive experience designing fintech products from concept to scale.
• Strong system design skills in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and architecture for the backend platform.
• Design and implement distributed micro-services and APIs.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.

Skills

Backend languages: Go/Golang, Python

Designing and developing RESTful APIs

SQL and NoSQL database technologies

Building reliable and scalable user-facing applications

Message queuing systems (Kafka preferred)

Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP

Job description

Rain, located in the United Kingdom, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the technical direction for major areas of its backend platform. The position is remote and involves building scalable integrations and APIs, mentoring fellow engineers, and ensuring system reliability.

As a key player in the fintech industry, you'll leverage your extensive expertise in backend languages and cloud technologies to shape innovative financial health products. Rain is committed to diversity and equal opportunity in hiring.