Staff Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Set technical direction and architecture for major areas of the backend platform, turning ambiguous product goals into robust, scalable technical strategy
• ▹Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a fully distributed micro-services architecture, leading by example on engineering quality
• ▹Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
• ▹Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications
• ▹Establish reusable patterns, frameworks and libraries that ensure scalability and accelerate future product development
• ▹Enforce observability best practices using logging, metrics and alerting systems
• ▹Create and maintain detailed technical documentation (architecture designs, APIs, workflows, system configurations)
• ▹Continuously monitor systems for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability
• ▹Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team

Requirements

• ▹At least 8 years of professional experience as an engineer, with a track record at staff or principal level
• ▹Extensive experience designing and building novel fintech products, ideally from concept to scale
• ▹Strong system design skills and ability to balance speed with long-term technical health in a fast-paced environment
• ▹Ability to take ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives from concept to completion, proactively identifying challenges and solutions
• ▹Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, able to influence decisions across teams
• ▹Deep familiarity with complex large scale distributed systems
• ▹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 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
• ▹Release management experience ensuring zero downtime, and CI/CD experience with tools such as GitLab CI and GitHub Actions

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote position (EMEA)

About the company

Rain describes itself as the world's first AI Financial Health Platform, serving 3.5 million employees at organizations like McDonald's, Marriott and T-Mobile. It has raised $150M in venture funding from investors including QED and Prosus.