VP of Engineering: Scale Systems, Elevate Quality

raincards.xyz; New York (NY); On-site; USD 320,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited time off

Flexible working

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Equity option

Wellness stipend

Office meals

Team summits

Job summary

Rain, a global stablecoin payments platform, seeks a VP of Engineering in New York to lead a ~50-person engineering team and scale to meet demand. You will own strategy, architecture, and quality across card issuing, wallets, ledger, and integrations, partnering with Risk, Compliance, and product leaders.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role at full-time senior leadership level. You will drive reliability, security, and velocity, shaping the technical roadmap and influencing board and partner

Qualifications

• 15+ years building production software.
• 8+ years leading engineers and time leading managers.
• Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale.
• Track record of raising an engineering bar.
• Real reliability ownership and incident experience.
• Experience in payments/fintech/banking infra.
• Experience leading engineering managers.
• Clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering strategy and architecture across core systems and multi-year roadmap.
• Set and own engineering quality bar for design, testing, observability, and decisions.
• Review critical designs and high-consequence architecture decisions.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence with SLOs and capacity planning.
• Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform with Risk/Compliance partners.
• Increase velocity via CI/CD improvements and better tooling.
• Hire and coach engineering managers and tech leads, define ownership and boundaries.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, GTM, and partners.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Executive communication

Board-level engagement

Incident response

Job description

Rain, a global stablecoin payments platform, seeks a VP of Engineering in New York to lead a ~50-person engineering team and scale to meet demand. You will own strategy, architecture, and quality across card issuing, wallets, ledger, and integrations, partnering with Risk, Compliance, and product leaders.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role at full-time senior leadership level. You will drive reliability, security, and velocity, shaping the technical roadmap and influencing board and partner