Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

About the role

Rain, a pioneer in the AI-driven financial health space serving over 3.5 million employees worldwide, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its distributed team. This is a fully remote position for a developer who thrives when engineering challenges directly affect real-world financial outcomes. You will be responsible for the architecture, development and ongoing maintenance of the backend infrastructure behind the financial platform, working closely with product managers and front-end engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable backend services supporting the AI Financial Health Platform.
• Work with multi-disciplinary squads to ship new features from inception to production.
• Monitor system responsiveness and implement optimizations to prevent downtime.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across the software stack.
• Conduct detailed code reviews to keep the codebase consistent and high quality.
• Mentor junior engineers and take part in peer reviews and architectural discussions.

Required profile

• Substantial experience in backend development, with a strong preference for Golang.
• Deep understanding of database design, management and optimization.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, specifically AWS or Azure.
• Proven expertise in designing and maintaining microservices architectures.
• Comfortable with the autonomy of a remote-first culture and able to collaborate across time zones.