Remote Tech Lead — Distributed Systems & APIs

Rain; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed micro-services engineering team in a fully remote role. You will translate requirements into robust technical solutions, lead a multidisciplinary group, and design scalable systems with strong observability.

You will own architecture decisions, collaborate across teams, integrate with third-party vendors, and build resilient RESTful APIs for admin portals, ensuring high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• At least 2+ years in leadership roles
• Strong systems design and ownership mindset
• Experience with distributed systems and cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage the team’s refinements and productivity
• 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 internal admin portals
• Foster reusable code and libraries to enable cross-team collaboration and scalability
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics and alerting systems
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation including architecture and APIs
• Continuously monitor Rain systems for performance and scalability
• Communicate effectively across teams to align priorities and requirements

Skills

Leadership

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS (ECS/EKS/RDS)

Job description

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed micro-services engineering team in a fully remote role. You will translate requirements into robust technical solutions, lead a multidisciplinary group, and design scalable systems with strong observability.

You will own architecture decisions, collaborate across teams, integrate with third-party vendors, and build resilient RESTful APIs for admin portals, ensuring high availability and performance.