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Rain

Tech Lead

Rain

. Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and recommend alternative approaches .

Posted 10/27/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing distributed microservices architectures, with a strong focus on building reliable RESTful APIs and managing complex large-scale systems. Proven leadership in guiding multidisciplinary teams and ensuring high performance and scalability of applications.

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Expert-Level Proficiency In Go (Golang)Deep Expertise In SQL (PostgreSQL)Advanced Knowledge Of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS)Experience With Docker/KubernetesStrong Experience With Kafka

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Hard Skills
Distributed Systems DesignRESTful API DevelopmentTechnical Documentation CreationCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentInfrastructure-As-Code
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationProject Ownership
Tools & Technologies
DockerKubernetesAWSKafkaGitHub Actions
Industry Keywords
Microservices ArchitectureObservability Best PracticesTransaction ReconciliationScalabilityAsynchronous Workflows

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDistributed SystemsDockerKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPythonSQLGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and recommend alternative approaches
  • Lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers
  • Manage the team’s technical refinements and productivity
  • Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a distributed microservices architecture
  • Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors and partners
  • Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs for internal admin portals
  • Create reusable code and libraries shared across teams
  • Enforce observability best practices using logging, metrics, and alerting
  • Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture, APIs, workflows, and configurations
  • Monitor systems and applications to maximize performance and scalability
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and coordinate software delivery
  • Shape the architectural direction of Rain’s financial health products and maintain accuracy across transaction, balance, ledger, and repayment reconciliation systems

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of professional experience
  • At least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role
  • Ability to design systems and understand consistency/availability trade-offs in distributed environments
  • Ownership of projects from concept to completion
  • Experience with complex large-scale distributed systems
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python
  • Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), including transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale
  • Strong experience with Kafka for resilient asynchronous workflows
  • Experience building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
  • Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS)
  • Experience with Docker/Kubernetes container orchestration
  • Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions/GitLab CI
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience and a “you build it, you run it” mindset
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible PTO
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage
  • Parental leave
  • Monthly stipend
  • Equity options