Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Go/Python APIs

Rain; Firenze; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rain is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our remote EMEA team. You will manage backend platforms, integrate with 3rd-party vendors, and build scalable RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.

The role emphasizes ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and working with distributed systems across banking, payroll and timekeeping domains. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience and strong cloud/container skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Strong ownership mindset, able to drive initiatives from concept to completion.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Familiar with large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts to meet targets.
• Design and implement reliable systems in a distributed micro-services architecture.
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Create reusable code and libraries to ensure future scalability.
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics, and alerting systems.
• Create and maintain detailed architecture and API documentation.
• Monitor systems to maximize performance and scalability.

Skills

Go

Python

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Flink

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Rain is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our remote EMEA team. You will manage backend platforms, integrate with 3rd-party vendors, and build scalable RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications.

The role emphasizes ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and working with distributed systems across banking, payroll and timekeeping domains. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience and strong cloud/container skills.