[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rain is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to manage backend platform areas, including integrations with third-party vendors and partners. The role builds reliable APIs and distributed systems that help users access Rain and maintain positive cash availability across banking, payroll, and timekeeping products.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang
• 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

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage
• Parental leave
• Monthly stipend
• Equity options
• Remote position

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