Engineering Lead

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Responsibilities

• ▹Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets
• ▹Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage the team's tech refinements and productivity
• ▹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 internal admin portals
• ▹Create reusable code and libraries that can be shared across teams
• ▹Enforce observability best practices using logging, metrics and alerting systems
• ▹Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for all solutions (architecture designs, APIs, workflows, system configurations)
• ▹Continuously monitor Rain systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability
• ▹Communicate effectively across teams to align priorities, clarify requirements and identify dependencies

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of professional experience, with at least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role
• ▹Systems design mindset: understanding the trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed environments
• ▹Ability to take ownership of projects and drive initiatives from concept to completion, proactively identifying challenges
• ▹Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
• ▹Familiarity with complex large scale distributed systems
• ▹Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python
• ▹Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), specifically transaction isolation levels, locking strategies and schema migrations at scale
• ▹Strong experience with Kafka for resilient, asynchronous workflows
• ▹Proven experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
• ▹Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) and container orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes
• ▹Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and a “you build it, you run it” mentality toward infrastructure-as-code

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote position

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.