VP of Engineering

The role

The VP of Engineering will own the technical direction and strategy for a 50-person engineering organization. You will lead engineering strategy across card issuing, wallets, ledger, and money movement while scaling the team and improving engineering velocity.

What you will do

• Own engineering strategy and architecture across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations.
• Set and own the engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, and documentation.
• Review critical designs and weigh in on high-consequence architecture and build-vs.-buy decisions.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Security.
• Increase engineering velocity through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, and technical debt management.
• Build and develop the engineering organization by hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leads.
• Operate as a member of the leadership team by translating company strategy into technical plans and representing engineering to the board and partners.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years building production software
• 8+ years leading engineers
• Meaningful time leading managers
• Current technical credibility with recent production code writing or review
• Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale
• Track record of raising an engineering bar
• Real reliability ownership including carrying a pager and running incident command
• Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or a domain with money, ledgers, or regulatory obligations
• Experience hiring and developing engineering managers
• Clear written communication
• Executive range for board or partner conversations
• Comfort with ambiguity and speed

Nice to have

• 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 (minimum 10 days required)
• Flexible working
• Stipend to set up a home workspace
• 95% coverage of health, dental, and vision plan costs for US employees
• 90% coverage of health, dental, and vision plan costs for dependents
• 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• Equity option plan
• Monthly stipend for health and wellness spending
• In-office meals via DoorDash credit
• Team summits including domestic and international offsites

About the company

Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. The company provides secure, scalable infrastructure for moving, storing, and using stablecoins through global payment cards and rails.