Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rain is a global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. The Engineering Manager will lead and develop a senior engineering team, own technical direction and architecture, remain hands-on in code, and drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for systems that move money globally.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of 4–6 senior backend and platform engineers, owning hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
- Own the architecture and technical direction of Rain’s core services, driving decisions across service boundaries, data modeling, build-vs.-buy, scalability, and technical debt
- Remain hands-on in the code approximately 30% of the time through meaningful PR reviews, technical prototyping, debugging, and well-scoped implementation work
- Establish and continuously raise engineering standards across testing, code quality, observability, incident response, on-call practices, and operational excellence
- Drive the reliability, correctness, and auditability of systems that move money globally, including ownership of SLOs, error budgets, system resilience, and platform maturity
- Translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear, sequenced technical plans while effectively communicating scope, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risk across Product, Compliance, Finance, and leadership
- Partner with the Head of Engineering on organizational design, headcount planning, technical strategy, and engineering practices that scale across the broader organization
Skills
- 4+ years building production software, including 3+ years managing and developing engineers — ideally as an Engineering Manager or experienced Tech Lead who has owned team delivery, technical execution, and people development in high-stakes production environments
- Currently and demonstrably hands-on. You have written or reviewed meaningful production code within the last year and you want a role where that continues
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale: data modeling, consistency and idempotency, queues and event-driven design, and the operational reality of running all of it
- A track record of raising an engineering bar. You can point to specific practices you introduced and the measurable change in quality, velocity, or reliability that followed
- Real reliability ownership — you have carried a pager, run incident command during a serious outage, and built the follow-through that kept it from recurring
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or another domain where money, ledgers, or regulatory obligations made correctness non-negotiable
- Strong hiring and coaching instincts, with managers or senior engineers you have developed who would work for you again
- Clear written communication. You can make a complex technical tradeoff legible to a CEO, a compliance officer, and a partner's engineering team in the same week
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed. You would rather ship something correct this quarter than design something perfect for next year
- Hands-on experience with card issuing, processing, or the Visa and Mastercard network stack
- Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, or EVM and Solana infrastructure
- Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight
- Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams
Benefits
- Unlimited time off; Rainmakers are required to take a minimum of 10 days off.
- Flexible working: work from home, come into an office, or both.
- New Rainmakers receive a stipend to set up a comfortable home workspace.
- For US Rainmakers, 95% of health, dental, and vision plan costs are covered, and 90% for dependents.
- 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan for US Rainmakers.
- 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Every Rainmaker gets an equity option plan.
- Monthly health and wellness stipend for eligible spending such as gym memberships, fitness classes, massages, and acupuncture.
- Lunch and dinner for Rainmakers working from the office, covered with a DoorDash credit.
- Team and company offsites, both domestic and international.
- Offers Bonus
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