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About the Role
Rain is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a roughly 30-person engineering organization, focusing on enhancing craft, quality, and technical direction. This role emphasizes making a small, senior team highly productive by raising the engineering bar, optimizing systems, and maintaining hands-on involvement in code and architecture. The position involves leading through direct reports and managers, collaborating with Product, Risk, and Compliance, and focusing on design reviews, incident retrospectives, hiring, and key technical decisions for scaling transaction volume.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of 4–6 senior backend and platform engineers, owning hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Own the architecture and technical direction of Rain’s core services, driving decisions across service boundaries, data modeling, build-vs.-buy, scalability, and technical debt.
- Remain hands-on in the code approximately 30% of the time through meaningful PR reviews, technical prototyping, debugging, and well-scoped implementation work.
- Establish and continuously raise engineering standards across testing, code quality, observability, incident response, on-call practices, and operational excellence.
- Drive the reliability, correctness, and auditability of systems that move money globally, including ownership of SLOs, error budgets, system resilience, and platform maturity.
- Translate ambiguous business and product goals into clear, sequenced technical plans while effectively communicating scope, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risk across Product, Compliance, Finance, and leadership.
- Partner with the Head of Engineering on organizational design, headcount planning, technical strategy, and engineering practices that scale across the broader organization.
Requirements
- 4+ years building production software, including 3+ years managing and developing engineers — ideally as an Engineering Manager or experienced Tech Lead who has owned team delivery, technical execution, and people development in high-stakes production environments.
- 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.
Skills
- Card issuing
- Card processing
- Visa network stack
- Mastercard network stack
- Stablecoins
- Onchain settlement
- Custody and key management
- EVM infrastructure
- Solana infrastructure
- SOC 2
- PCI DSS
- Distributed teams
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior
Benefits
- Unlimited time off (minimum 10 days required)
- Flexible working environment (home, office, or hybrid)
- Stipend for home workspace setup
- 95% company coverage for US employee health, dental, and vision plans
- 90% company coverage for dependents' health, dental, and vision plans
- 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 (lunch and dinner covered via DoorDash credit)
- Team summits (domestic and international offsites)
About the Company
- Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents.
- Our technology allows partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, wallets, and cross-border rails.
- As both a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries and territories.
- Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world.
- We have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company backed by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS.
- In January 2026, we closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ, valuing Rain at $1.95B, with Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst also participating.
- We believe in an open and flat structure where team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.