Remote Tech Lead: FinHealth Platform + Equity

Rain; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Dis

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Monthly stipend

Equity options

Job summary

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers. You will own core systems for transactions, balances, and financial movement across our distributed platform.

You will shape architecture, drive reliability, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver scalable financial health products. This remote role demands strong leadership and architectural judgment.

Qualifications

• Expert-level proficiency in Go and/or Python.
• Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), including transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and migrations at scale.
• Strong experience with Kafka for building resilient, asynchronous workflows.
• Proven experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) and container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and a you build it, you run it mentality toward infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage the team’s refinements and productivity.
• Design and implement reliable systems in a distributed microservices 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 future projects across teams.
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics, and alerts.
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for solutions.

Skills

Go

Python

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

AWS (ECS/EKS/RDS)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI)

Job description

Rain is seeking a Tech Lead to guide a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers. You will own core systems for transactions, balances, and financial movement across our distributed platform.

You will shape architecture, drive reliability, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver scalable financial health products. This remote role demands strong leadership and architectural judgment.