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Senior Backend Engineer

Rain

Remote · USJob$180–220K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$180–220K/yr
Location
Remote · US
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Rain is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to manage areas of its backend platform, including third-party integrations. The role works with international product and engineering teams on products across banking, payroll, and timekeeping. The engineer will design and maintain distributed systems, APIs, and vendor integrations, while contributing to technical solutions and performance and scalability improvements.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMobileApache KafkaStrategic ThinkingContinuous IntegrationGithubRelease ManagementCI/CDDistributed SystemsPayrollApache FlinkRabbitMQCross-Functional Team LeadershipAPI IntegrationsProject OwnershipCross-Functional CollaborationCommunicationGoRESTful API DesignSQLNoSQLData ModelingDatabase OptimizationScalable ApplicationsMessage QueuingKafkaFlinkCloud TechnologiesAWSAzureGCPServerlessDockerKubernetesECSGitLab CIGitHub Actions

Qualifications

5+ Years Engineering Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Parental Leave

Full 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 Backend Engineer in NAMER. 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

  • 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

Compensation $180,000 - $220,000 Note this is a range and we take in a variety of factors when determining total compensation for the position.

How we care for our team Along with competitive salaries, Rain offers great benefits including:

  • Flexible PTO

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage

  • Parental leave

  • Monthly stipend

  • Equity options

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitments 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 [email protected]. What’s Next 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.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,246 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$180–220K/yr
  • New York median$170–232K/yr369 salary ranges
  • US median$149–224K/yr2,592 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $200K, is close to the New York median midpoint ($202K) — in the middle half of Backend Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 479 open Backend Engineer jobs in New York and 3,246 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,633 postings).
Education
897 of the 3,246 open Backend Engineer jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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