Senior Backend Engineer Bragança

Overview

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’ve raised nearly $400M in funding—including the largest Series A in fintech history—and just closed our Series B to fuel our next stage of hypergrowth.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in LATAM. 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.

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 the context of a fully distributed services architecture.
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting
  - end web and mobile applications.
• Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that can be shared across teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring scalability for future projects.
• Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics and alerting systems.
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations.
• Continuously monitor Rain systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability.
• Maintain effective team communication and collaboration to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless coordination throughout the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• Proficient knowledge of end programming languages such as Go/Golang, Java, Python and C++.
• Experience with SQL and No
  SQL database technologies and strong understanding of data model design and optimization principles.
• Experience at building reliable and scalable
  - end and
  - end applications.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures, with a strong ability to meet performance and scalability requirements.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the capacity to work effectively with
  - functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Keep up to date with technologies like AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others.
• Strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion with minimal supervision, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions. Experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
• Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred) / Rabbit
  MQ / Redis.
• Effective release management experience for ensuring zero downtime and experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Git
  Lab CI and Git
  Hub Actions.

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 Rain.