Senior Backend Engineer Portalegre

Senior Backend Engineer
Portalegre
Portalegre, Portalegre District, Portugal

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About Rain

Rain is the
- growing earned wage access (EWA) fintech in the U. S. , serving 3. 5 million employees and backed by top investors like QED and Prosus. We have raised nearly $400M in funding, including the largest Series A in fintech history, and have just closed our Series B to fuel our next stage of hypergrowth.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in LATAM. This is a remote position. The candidate will manage various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners. As a Backend Engineer with our User Tribe, 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 a robust digital wallet that enables seamless transactions and employer linking. The ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and contribute to strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

1. Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet targets.
2. Design and implement reliable systems in a distributed
   - services architecture.
3. Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
4. Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting web and mobile applications.
5. Create reusable code and libraries for scalability and collaboration.
6. Enforce observability best practices using logging, metrics, and alerting systems.
7. Maintain detailed technical documentation, including architecture, APIs, workflows, and configurations.
8. Monitor systems for performance and scalability improvements.
9. Collaborate effectively across teams to align priorities and requirements throughout the development lifecycle.

Skills and Qualifications

1. 5+ years of software development experience.
2. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
3. Proficiency in
   - end languages such as Go, Java, Python, or C++.
4. Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with SQL and No
   SQL databases.
5. Experience with scalable distributed systems and microservices architecture.
6. Strong collaboration and communication skills.
7. Familiarity with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
8. Ownership-driven, proactive approach to projects.
9. Experience with agile methodologies and CI/CD frameworks.
10. Knowledge of message queuing systems like Kafka, Rabbit
    MQ, or Flink.

Additional Information

Rain is committed to diversity and equal employment opportunity. For accommodations due to disability, contact us at ******.

Job Details

• Senior level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and IT

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