Senior Backend Engineer

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, serving 3.5 million employees at leading organizations like McDonald's, Marriott, and T-Mobile. Rain works in the background to optimize every employee's financial life to prevent shortfalls and build long-term stability. Backed by top investors including QED and Prosus, Rain has raised $150M in venture funding to fuel our next stage of hyper growth.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in EMEA. This position is remote. The candidate will be responsible for managing various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.

As a Backend Engineer you will play a central role in making it easier for users to access Rain and build products that help users maintain positive cash availability. You will work with our international product and engineering teams to manage products in the interception of the banking, payroll and timekeeping domains. Our ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and looking for opportunities to contribute to our strategic thinking

What You’ll Do

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets
• Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a fully distributed micro-services architecture
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications
• Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that ensure scalability for future projects
• Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics, and alerting systems
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation (architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations)
• Continuously monitor systems for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability

Who You Are

• You have at least 5 years of professional experience as an engineer
• You have a strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions
• You have excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
• You’re familiar with complex large scale distributed systems

Required Technical Qualifications

• Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang, Python
• Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs
• Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data model design and optimization
• Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
• Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or Flink
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies: AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others
• Effective release management experience for ensuring zero downtime and experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Gitlab CI and Github actions