Senior Backend Engineer
Remote in Portugal·Full-time·Added 4 months ago
This job was published 4 months ago
4 open roles
Overview
Job details
Full-time hours
Per the ad.
Fully remote
Per the ad.
Requirements
Have 5+ years of experience
Senior-level role.
The role
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
Requirements
What we're looking for
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
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
Nice to have
Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or Flink
Hiring process
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don't be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
About Rain Technologies
Rain Technologies is a fintech company based in San Francisco, USA, that provides on-demand pay and earned wage access solutions. The company partners with employers to offer employees early access to their earned wages, helping to improve financial wellness and reduce financial stress. Rain Technologies operates in the financial technology sector, focusing on payroll integration and digital banking services.
Rain Technologies has established a presence in Spain, with open roles for engineering positions such as Staff Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Lead, and Tech Lead. The company's Spain office is likely in Barcelona, a major tech hub, though the exact location is not specified. For international professionals, Rain offers opportunities to work on innovative fintech products in a growing market, with a culture that emphasizes engineering excellence and financial inclusion.
- Industry
- FinTech
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 100–500
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
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Additional information
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Rain is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at HR-US@rain.us.


