Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rain is a global stablecoin payments platform serving enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. The Head of Engineering will own the quality, architecture, technical direction, reliability, and operational excellence of a roughly 30-person engineering organization while remaining hands-on in code and design. The role also involves coaching engineering leaders, partnering with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Security, and supporting the next order of magnitude of transaction volume.
Responsibilities
- Set and own Rain’s engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making, ensuring correctness is treated as critical for systems that move customer funds
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by staying active in the codebase, reviewing critical PRs and designs, prototyping high-risk components, debugging production issues, and making key architectural and build-vs.-buy decisions
- Own the technical architecture and strategy across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving incident response, capacity planning for 10x growth, and designing resilient systems with graceful degradation, idempotency, and replay capabilities
- Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, and Security to meet PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements
- Increase engineering velocity without sacrificing quality through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture that enables teams to ship safely and independently
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by coaching engineering managers and technical leads, maintaining a high hiring and performance bar, establishing clear team ownership, and partnering effectively across Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and GTM
Skills
- 10+ years building production software, including 4+ years leading engineers — ideally as a Head of Engineering, Director, or Senior EM at a company where the systems handled real consequences
- 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
- Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight
- Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams
- 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
Benefits
- Unlimited time off; Rainmakers are required to take a minimum of 10 days for themselves.
- 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 stipend for eligible health and wellness 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.
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