Remote Senior Backend Engineer - APIs & Distributed Systems

Golangprojects; Santa Monica (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Rain is the world''s first AI Financial Health Platform powering 3.5 million employees at major brands. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our remote team. You will shape the backend platform, integrate with 3rd-party vendors, and work with international product and engineering teams.

You will design scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and ensure observability and reliable deployments across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building distributed microservices and backend systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in Go and Python backend development.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust backend solutions.
• Design and maintain distributed microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors.
• Ensure observability with logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Guide release management with zero-downtime deployments.

Skills

Go

Python

RESTful APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD (GitLab/GitHub Actions)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Rain is the world''s first AI Financial Health Platform powering 3.5 million employees at major brands. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our remote team. You will shape the backend platform, integrate with 3rd-party vendors, and work with international product and engineering teams.

You will design scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and ensure observability and reliable deployments across cloud environments.