Senior Backend Engineer

New York City, NY, Remote. Posted 3 days ago

The role

The Senior Backend Engineer will manage various areas of the backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners. You will work with international product and engineering teams to manage products in the banking, payroll, and timekeeping domains.

What you will do

Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions
Design and implement reliable systems and applications in a fully distributed micro-services architecture
Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications
Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that ensure scalability
Enforce observability best practices using logging, metrics, and alerting systems
Create and maintain detailed technical documentation
Continuously monitor systems for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability

Required qualifications

At least 5 years of professional experience as an engineer
Strong ability to take ownership of projects
Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills
Familiar with complex large scale distributed systems
Proficient in backend languages: Go/Golang
Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs
Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including data model design and optimization
Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
Familiarity with Cloud technologies: AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others
Effective release management experience for ensuring zero downtime
Experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Gitlab CI and Github actions

Nice to have

Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, or Flink

Benefits

Flexible PTO
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage
Parental leave
Monthly stipend
Equity options

About the company

Rain is the world's first AI Financial Health Platform, serving 3.5 million employees at leading organizations. The company has raised $150M in venture funding.