Remote Tech Lead — AI Finance Platform Architect

Rain; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disabil

Parental leave

Monthly stipend

Equity options

Job summary

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed micro-services architecture, owning back-end and integration work for a privacy-first AI financial health platform. You will lead backend, frontend, and QA collaboration, shape system design, and drive reliability across ledgers and settlement processes.

You will partner with product and engineering to move quickly without sacrificing precision, building critical infrastructure from the ground up while setting a technical bar for the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience
• 2+ years in leadership role
• Experience designing distributed systems with trade-offs between consistency and availability
• Strong ownership mindset and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience with large scale distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage tech refinements
• 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
• Create reusable code and libraries to support scalability
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics, and alerting
• Document architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and configurations
• Monitor Rain systems for performance and scalability opportunities
• Foster cross-team collaboration throughout the software lifecycle

Skills

Go

Python

SQL

PostgreSQL

Kafka

REST APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a distributed micro-services architecture, owning back-end and integration work for a privacy-first AI financial health platform. You will lead backend, frontend, and QA collaboration, shape system design, and drive reliability across ledgers and settlement processes.

You will partner with product and engineering to move quickly without sacrificing precision, building critical infrastructure from the ground up while setting a technical bar for the team.